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Description: | Oil on canvas. A man in highland dress watches a group of cattle at the water’s edge. In the distance is a view of Arthur’s Seat, the main peak of a group of hills in Holyrood Park (also called the Queen's or King's Park), Edinburgh. Through the trees the outline of Salisbury Crags, a series of 46-metre cliffs, can be made out.
The Edinburgh born artist Alexander Nasmyth knew this landscape intimately. In 1815, he exhibited a ‘View of Arthur’s Seat, near Edinburgh’ at the British Institution in London. In 1863, long after the artist’s death, his ‘View near Edinburgh, with Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags’ was sold through Christie’s. | Subjects: | field genre topography tree cottage landscape C19th cow hedgerow house herdsman wall farmer/farm labourer man | Temporal: | 1816 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Patrick Nasmyth | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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