The Scotish gallery
Subtitle: or, portraits of eminent persons of Scotland: many of them after pictures by the celebrated Jameson, at Taymouth, and other places. With brief accounts of the characters represented, and an introduction on the rise and progress of painting in Scotland
By: by John Pinkerton
Contributors: Bawtree, engraver, active 1799 engraver; Berge, Ignatius Jos. van der, 1752-1824, engraver; Birrell, A., active 1770-1820, engraver; Buchan, Henry David Erskine, Earl of, 1710-1767, illustrator; Furck, Sebastian, 1589-1666, illustrator; Harding, E. (Edward), 1755-1840, bookseller, engraver; Herbert, Isaac, active 1793-1798, bookseller; Jamesone, George, 1589 or 1590-1644, illustrator; Oliver, Peter, approximately 1594-approximately 1647, illustrator; Roberts, P., active 1795-1825, engraver; De Peyster, J. Watts (John Watts), 1821-1907, donor; Mary, Queen of Scots Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed for E. Harding, no. 98, Pall-Mall
Published: 1799
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Other titles: Portraits of eminent persons of Scotland; Scottish gallery
Notes: Half-title.

Though the "Chronological list of the portraits," pages [6-7], lists 52 portraits, there are only 51 plates, portrait 11, Margaret Tudor, and portrait 12, John Duke of Albany, appearing on the same plate.

Plates engraved and stipple-engraved portraits by Edward Harding, Birrell, Bawtree, P. Roberts, and I.J. van den Burghe after George Jamesone, Henry, Earl of Buchan, Sebastian Furck, and Peter Oliver the younger.

Plates with imprints for Isaac Herbert dated 1797 and 1798 (he was declared a bankrupt 10 November 1798) and for Edward Harding dated 1798 and 1799.

Quarto format.

Watermarks: "1799"; "Lepard 1794."

With woodcut tail-pieces.

English short title catalogue, T132742

Gift; John Watts de Peyster; 1888-1893.