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拍品专文
John Clerk was the seventh son of the second Baronet of Eldin. He was married to the sister of John, James and Robert Adams, the leading architects of the Scottish Enlightenment, and thus moved in the intellectual circles of 18th-century Edinburgh. He was a naval writer and amateur etcher, who over a period of 12 years, between 1770-82, produced a corpus of over one hundred etchings of buildings and landscapes of Scotland - and one reversed copy after Rembrandt's so-called Landscape with an Obelisk (New Hollstein 249).
The British Museum in London holds an impression of the same subject, which is more lightly touched with grey wash (inv. no. 1857,0520.214) that the present sheet. A delicately watercoloured impression is kept in the Print Room of the Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh (inv. no. P 2355.12).
For further information about the artist and his etched oeuvre, see also Geoffrey Bertram's website and revised online catalogue at: www.clerkofeldin.com
The British Museum in London holds an impression of the same subject, which is more lightly touched with grey wash (inv. no. 1857,0520.214) that the present sheet. A delicately watercoloured impression is kept in the Print Room of the Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh (inv. no. P 2355.12).
For further information about the artist and his etched oeuvre, see also Geoffrey Bertram's website and revised online catalogue at: www.clerkofeldin.com