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Scotland: unidentified location. View looking down on a scrubby and rocky headland with two reclining figures and a dog in the foreground, and three additional figures, soldiers or sportsmen.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/22
Purpose
Scotland: unidentified location. View looking down on a scrubby and rocky headland with two reclining figures and a dog in the foreground, and three additional figures, soldiers or sportsmen.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in red ink 22
Signed and dated
- Undated
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and grey wash; pencil framing line333 x 495
Hand
John Slezer (attributed to)
Watermark
crowned fleur de lys
Notes
The composition is typical of the bird's-eye view that is found in several of the plates in John Slezer's Theatrum Scotiae (1693), for example the foregrounds in pl.22 and 23 (see Cavers A Vision of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1993), pp.39, 40, 93-100). Several draughtsmen, including John Wyck and Robert White, were involved with Theatrum Scotiae and there is probably a connection between such prints and William Adam's projected Vitruvius Scoticus (see Cavers, op.cit, p.90).
Level
Drawing
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