View of a Landscape in Scotland

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Drawing details

Title: View of a Landscape in Scotland
Date: 1858
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 23.9 x 19.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1139 p.114
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "from the Cairn Kinrara. / Aug. '58" in the artist's hand" in pencil, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

This is a study of Loch an Eilean within the Kinrara estate. This drawing, made in August 1858 was drawn from a cain or mound of stones at Kinrara, an estate in Aviemore, Scotland.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of a landscape. 

Provenance

Collection of Adelaide Sartoris (ne+ Kemble, opera singer, writer and society hostess, 1814-1879); sold through the Maas Gallery (art dealers) in 1969; purchased by Leighton House Museum in 1969