Smithson Geological Tour, Staffa, Scotland

Summary

In 1784 James Smithson went on a geological tour of England and Scotland with the noted French geologist, Barthelemy Faujas de-St.-Fond, William Thornton, and the Italian Count Paolo Andreani. In this view, a group approaches Fingals Cave on the Isle of Staffa in the Hebrides. The image is the frontispiece to volume 2. A similar illustration (95-20541) was inserted by the owner of the book, but was not part of original volume.

Subject

• Andreani, Paolo 1763-1823
• Faujas-de-St.-Fond cit (Barthélemy) 1741-1819
• Thornton, William
• Smithson, James 1765-1829

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

From A Journey Through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 by Barthelemy Faujas de-Saint-Fond, Glasgow: Hugh Hopkins, 1907.

Contained within

de-St.-Fond, JOURNEY, Dibner/SIL

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1784

Restrictions & Rights

Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Dibner Library

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Landscapes
• Geology
• Expeditions
• Hebrides
• Staffa, Isle of
• England

Place

• Fingal's Cave
• England
• Scotland

Form/Genre

• Engraving
• Landscape

ID Number

95-20545

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 4 x 5 3/4; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Engraving

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