Memorial catalogue of the French and Dutch loan collection, Edinburgh International Exhibition, 1886
A memorial catalogue published in Edinburgh in 1888 by David Douglas, recording the French and Dutch loan collection shown at the 1886 Edinburgh International Exhibition, aimed at collectors and art-lovers. The plates are pen-and-ink or etched reproductions of 19th-century French and Dutch painters' works, with dense cross-hatched tonal shading, soft clouded skies, dark wooded groves, and open landscapes. A designer could draw on their atmospheric hatching for moody, tonal textures and for dramatic weather and landscape compositions.
