William Daniell's journeys around Skye, Raasay and the Moray Coast in 1815
Introduction to the Journeys |
About William Daniell |
Daniell's Technique |
Books about the Journeys |
Book about Skye and Raasay |
Book about The Moray Coast |
About the Author |
William Daniell, (1769-1837), was the elder son of the landlord of the
Swan Inn in Chertsey. In 1779, on the death of his father,
he
was taken to London to be brought up by his uncle Thomas Daniell, an artist
and member of the newly founded Royal Academy of Arts. He and his uncle
spent the period 1785 to 1794 travelling around India, from which, on their
return to England, they produced a series of aquatint prints which were
published under the title Oriental Scenery. William Daniell was a
gifted artist in oils and watercolours. He excelled in transferring his
pictures to prints using the aquatint technique. He was elected Associate
of the Royal Academy in 1807, and a Royal Academician in 1822. The artistic
work for which he is best known is, A Voyage Round Great Britain,
which was published over the period 1814 to 1825, and includes 308 aquatint
prints of coastal views.
Seventeen of these prints are of the Hebridean Islands of Eigg, Rum, Skye and Raasay, which he visited in July and August 1815. These are reproduced in William Daniell's Isle of Skye and Raasay.
Daniell covered the coast from Thurso to Banff during the period August to September 1815. He published 35 aquatints, of which 30 are reproduced in William Daniell's Inverness and the Moray Firth.