Sketches from Nature By John MacWhirter, R.A.

London : Cassell & Company, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large 8vo. Unpaged. x 47 tipped in plates.The boards are lightly rubbed, both hinges have been reinforced with acid free tape, the preliminaries are foxed, there is an ownership signature on the front end paper and the remnants of a long dead spider on the Content's page (she's very pretty), else a clean, unmarked and solid copy in very good binding. Full title: 'Sketches from Nature By John MacWhirter R.A. with an Introduction by Mrs. MacWhirtyer and a Portrait by Sir Hubert Von Herkomer, C.V.O., R.A.' "John MacWhirter RA (27 March 1839 in Slateford, Edinburgh - 28 January 1911 in London) was a Scottish landscape painter....He spent long periods sketching and studying nature outdoors. His first painting to be exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy at age 14, was 'Old Cottage at Braid'. In 1880, he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy. Exploring and painting abroad he visited Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Norway and the U.S.A. - the Alps being a great inspiration....MacWhirter specialised in romantic landscapes with a great fondness for trees, spending much time in the hilly countryside of Perthshire. Initially, under the influence of John Everett Millais, he experimented with the detailed images of the Pre-Raphaelites, but later adopted a more sweeping style. With John Pettie he illustrated Wordsworth's Poetry for the Young[(Strahan, 1863). With Waller H. Paton and others, MacWhirter illustrated The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Hislop, 1869).