"Trout Fishing" by Douglas Adams, Signed Artist Proof, 1893

This is a signed Douglas Adams "Trout Fishing", published in 1893. Produced in a numbered edition of 200, this print is pencil signed at bottom by the artist. The print depicts depicts a Scottish highlands trout fishing scene. Two fishermen are in the foreground along a small river. Behind them, a stone bridge and the rugged Scottish highlands open up to an expansive sky. The contrast of scale between human and nature captured by Adams communicated the sense of awe many 19th-century travelers felt in this land. Artists romanticized the highlands as one of the last “unspoiled” corners of the British Isles.  Douglas Adams (1853-1920) exhibited in the Royal Academy between 1880 and 1894, and also shared a Primrose Hill studio with other artists. He specialized as a landscape and wildfowl painter and very often painted sporting scenes. Many of his paintings are of field sports including hunting, shooting, and fishing, as well as other landscapes painted in the Victorian tradition. Due to t