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Description: | s.d. inscr. around "A FOULIS PICTOR STEREOTYPE INVENTOR ET TYPOGRAPHUS GLASGO. 1814"
inscr. at base "MORISON ?JULY" CRE TASSIE, James; (Scottish; 1735-1799) 1814 Andrew Foulis studied Humanity (Latin) at the University of Glasgow, and later taught Greek, Latin and French. Andrew joined his brother, Robert, in partnership, and the brothers dominated the Glasgow book trade. They earned an international reputation for their magnificent editions of the classics such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (1756-58). The brothers were lauded as 'the Elzevirs of Britain', after the famous family of Dutch printers. However, they also published ordinary editions of classical and modern authors, including Francis Hutcheson, Robert's mentor. Their achievement, as described by Richard B. Sher and Andrew Hook, 'was to translate into print culture the values of the classical, aesthetic, moralistic, Hutchesonian Enlightenment in Glasgow'. James Tassie studied at the Foulis Academy.
(Source: Special Collections, University of Glasgow Library) | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | : : HISTPER : UNIVERSITY HISTORY : HISTORICAL COLLECTION : TASSIE_M : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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