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Scotland: Midlothian: Hawthornden. View of the partially-ruined castle at Hawthornden, set high on rocks above a wooded gorge of the North Esk river, with a seated figure in the foreground to the right.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/26
Purpose
Scotland: Midlothian: Hawthornden. View of the partially-ruined castle at Hawthornden, set high on rocks above a wooded gorge of the North Esk river, with a seated figure in the foreground to the right.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in red ink 26
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably late 1740s
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and pen;watercolour240 x 388
Hand
Paul Sandby
Notes
This drawing by Paul Sandby (1725-1809) presumably belongs to his Scottish period of the late 1740s, and may be compared with a similar view he made of Bonnington Linn, Strathclyde, of c.1750 (see Holloway The Discovery of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1978), p.48). There is a virtually identical view by Hugh William Williams (1773-1829) made in 1796 (see Holloway, op.cit, p.84, fig.80). The castle was largely rebuilt in the seventeenth century and was a favourite subject for topographers in the later eighteenth century. The Sandby view in Adam vol.56/155 is of the same date as this drawing and is probably also a landscape of the North Esk.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
The Adam Brothers in Rome: Drawings from the Grand Tour, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 September 2008 - 14 February 2009
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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