Scottish Loch Scenery. Illustrated in a series of coloured plates from drawings by A. F. Lydon. With descriptive text by T. A. Croal
A Victorian topographical album of Scottish lochs, published in London by John Walker & Co. in 1882, with colour plates after drawings by Alexander Francis Lydon and descriptive text by Thomas Allan Croal, aimed at tourists and armchair travellers. The chromolithographs are wide horizontal views of water held between wooded hills, worked in yellow-greens and grey-blues with pale banded skies, ruined towers, cattle and single walking figures for scale \u2014 useful for landscape backgrounds, gradient skies and muted period colour palettes.
