page_title: George Aikman
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: George Aikman / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Seascape Weighing the Anchor.
context_page_description: George Aikman ARSA was a Scottish painter and engraver.
context_section_description: Aikman's theme as a painter was landscape, particularly in the Perthshire Highlands and Warwickshire. He practised etching during most of his life, and towards the end he engraved mezzotints. Impressions of some of these were exhibited, but only a few of them were published. The engraved plates included:
  Robert Burns (etching), after Alexander Nasmyth, and
  Sir Douglas Maclagan (etching), after Sir George Reid;
  and among his original plates were:
  Carlyle in his Study (etching);
  Sir Daniel Macnee, P.R.S.A. (etching);
  Norham Castle (etching);
  Coming Storm across the Moor (mezzotint).
  An etching after his picture For the Good of the Church (R.A., 1874) was purchased by the Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. Aikman contributed to the Etcher (1880, 1882), English Etchings (1883-4), and Selected Etchings (1885), and he illustrated A Round of the Links: Views of the Golf Greens of Scotland (1893), with etchings after the drawings of John Smart, R.S.A. (1838–1899), and The Midlothian Eska (1895).
  Aikman made some contributions to The Art Journal, on engravers and painters of earlier generations. He made drawings of ancient Edinburgh houses doomed to demolition, and the City Museum gathered a collection of them.
caption: Weighing the Anchor by George Aikman
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