February 2017 Academic & Specialist Birlinn

Hadrian's Wall: Paintings by the Richardson Family David J. Breeze


Hardback | Feb 2017 | John Donald Publishers | 9781910900055 | 144pp | 215x285mm | RFB

Brothers Henry, Charles and Thomas Richardson painted nearly 80 views of Hadrian's Wall between 1838 and the 1880s. Most were created by Henry Burdon Richardson, who accompanied author John Collingwood Bruce on his tour of Hadrian's Wall in 1848. Only 17 were reproduced as engravings in Bruce's books; very few have ever been published as paintings. They form a valuable record of the Roman frontier as it was during an important stage in its history, before the advent of the modern world.