STEEL ENGRAVING – “IN THE HIGHLANDS” from the painting by R. Carrick, engraved by E. Brandard, printed in 1885.  This engraving is in very good condition.  The engraving measures 5 5/8” x 10 7/8”, and is matted to 12” x 16” for easy framing.

   With some English artists, Sir Edwin Landseer for example, there seems to have been an instinctive longing for bolder and wilder scenery than England can afford: sometimes the kind of yearning has taken a painter abroad, and impelled him to spend years in illustrating the country of his choice.  Where an artist has been drawn to the Highlands of Scotland it has somehow always been an ultimatum, nor can we recall a case in which the impatient longings have not been satisfied there.  To the pencil of the landscape painter, especially when he has been a native of the country, this scenery seems to have given a force and vigor of touch and handling in harmony with itself.  Its stern and rugged features, even under the most softening influences of atmospheric effects, compel a boldness of treatment which would be entirely out of place amid scenes of another kind.  Thus Mr. Carrick shows in this picture, giving to the subject a freedom of treatment which – allowing for certain points of hardness that might judiciously have been kept down – amounts almost to grandeur of effect.  Darkly, and charged with thunder, rolls that sea of clouds over rock and heather and distant hills as far as the eye reaches: the sun breaking through momentarily, and shedding a bright gleam over a portion of the foreground and on a far-away spot of the landscape.  It is a wild and weird scene, and by no means tamely or unworthily represented.

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