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380 x 565 (central block 265 x 310, but imposed on a delicate quasi-watermark background). Edition limited to 40, numbered and signed by the artist. One of a series of seven prints commissioned from Scottish printmakers by the Cromarty Arts Trust, in co-operation with art.tm in Inverness (formerly the Highland Printmakers' Workshop, now the Highland Print Studio), to celebrate the bicentenary of Hugh Miller (1802-1856), the Cromarty stonemason who became one of the great writers of the Scottish nineteenth century. The print takes its title from "Lecture First" of Miller's The Testimony of the Rocks (1857): "In the many-folded pages of the Old Red Sandstone, till we reach the highest and last, there occur the remains of no other vertebrates than those of this fourth class", and reproduces, on (as it were) split screen, parts of pages from his Foot-prints of the Creator, or, The Asterolepsis of Stromness (1849), and from HMSO's Orkney and Shetland (1976) in its British Regional Geology series. Carol Dunbar (1958-) learnt the art of tapestry weaving at Edinburgh College of Art. But she has also been an active printmaker, working from her home in Harray, on Orkney, where she is Education Officer at the wonderful Pier Arts Centre in Stromness. Seller Inventory # 1eB10021d
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