IBBETSON, John Thomas, later Sir John Thomas SELWIN [or SELWYN], 6th Baronet (1789-1869, artist). "Scotch Scenery" [title on spines], [c.1824], 2 volumes, 4to (320 x 255mm). 162 FINE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS by John Thomas Ibbetson, most in bistre, but c.20 in colours, each signed and captioned, with some dated 1824, in window mounts, average image size 120 x 200mm., with one forming a folding panorama of Loch Lomond (section of panorama detached at first fold, but present). Attractively bound in contemporary panelled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers, many blank leaves at the end of each volume (upper joints split at foot, rubbed and scuffed, some staining). Provenance: The Property of a Lady, by descent from her great grandfather; Isabella Selwin (bookplate, either of the artist's wife, born Isabella Leveson-Gower; or their daughter, Isabella Mary Selwin); "J.T.I." (the artist's armorial monogram stamped in gilt in the upper compartment of spines). The first watercolour in the first volume is captioned "A Tourist" with the initials (?of the subject) "H.G.B."; the first in the second volume is captioned "Highlander and Deer Hounds at Blair Atholl." Otherwise, the watercolours are chiefly of romantic Scottish scenery, castles and houses, and include views in West Lothian, Stirlingshire, Dumbartonshire, Argyllshire, Inverness-shire, Perthshire, Forfarshire, Fifeshire, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Ayrshire. The collection concludes with four views of Edinburgh. (2)
