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MCIAN, Robert.
James Logan
Gaelic (Highland) Gatherings.
Robert Ronald McIan (1803 – 1856), also Robert Ranald McIan, was a Scottish actor and painter. He is best known for romanticised depictions of Scottish clansmen, their battles and domestic life. His wife, Fanny McIan, was a painter and early teacher of art to women. McIan's early paintings concentrated on scenes from domestic life in the Highlands, such as illicit whisky stills and women grinding corn. These culminated in the 1848 sequel to the Clans book, entitled Gaelic Gatherings: Or The Highlanders at Home, on the Heath, the River and the Loch.
- Published
- London, Ackermann & Co., 1848.
- References
- Colas 1891; Bobins II 686.
- Plates
- 24
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London, Ackermann & Co., 1848.
- Ref
- 1644
Folio (498 x 310mm). Contemporary red morocco, boards covered panelled with a wide border stamped in blind and gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges. Spine lettered in gilt in the second and fourth compartments, a decorative gilt design in all others. Scattered spotting throughout, extremities rubbed, but heavier to the spine, lower joint splitting at foot of the spine. PROVENANCE: The Earl of Derby's armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Lithographic title and dedication page, 46 pages of descriptive text, 24 coloured lithographic plates within a gilt ruled border, heightened in gum-arabic. A rare and complete suite of prints, accompanied with textural descriptions by James Logan, detailing the various pastimes and occupations of the Highlanders. Robert McIan is best know for his illustrations in 'The Clans of The Scottish Highlands', published in 1845 on the centenary of the Jacobite Rising. This work was the sequel to the highly successful 'The Clans', focusing on scenes from domestic life in the Highlands, including illustrations of two young girls in tartan angling and men spearing wild salmon at night, the flaming light of burning torches guiding their efforts. The plates have accompanying textural descriptions by Logan, a prominent Scottish author on Gaelic culture, who offers up amusing descriptions of highland folk; the 'oldest race of men, who from the nature of their territories, and their warlike habits, are not easily conquered.' (Introduction). Coloured plates in order: 1. Going to School. 2. Carrying Home Peat. 3. Deer Stalking. 4. [A] Highland Shepherd. 5. Girls Washing. 6. Robbing an Eagle's Nest. 7. Wool-Carding. 8. Threshing Corn. 9. [A] Whiskey Still. 10. Gillies with Game. 11. Spearing Salmon. 12. Herring Fishery. 13. Spinning with the Distaff. 14. Angling. 15. Drovers. 16. Fording a River. 17. The Hand-Mill. 18. MacPhee the Outlaw. 19. Highland Foot Post. 20. Gille Calum. 21. Throwing the Stone. 22. Signal for the Boat. 23. Gathering Dulse. 24. Carrying Fern.