Sketches by Alexander Nasmyth of Ravenscraig and Craigmillar Castles

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Description Sketches by Alexander Nasmyth of Ravenscraig and Craigmillar Castles

Date 1813 to 1822

Collection Sketches by Alexander Nasmyth of Ravenscraig and Craigmillar Castles

Catalogue Number 551 632

Category All Other

Scope and Content Two pencil sketches by Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840), one showing Ravensheugh (Ravenscraig Casle), the other a bastion at Craigmillar Castle.

Archive History Purchased by HES at Lyon and Turnbull Sale 574, Paintings and Works on Paper, 26 September 2019.

Related Material See also HES Archives Accession Number 2018/28 for other sketches by Nasmyth.

Access Conditions There are no restrictions upon access.

Administrative History Alexander Nasmyth, artist (1758-1840). Born in Edinburgh, Nasmyth was educated at the Royal High School and the Trustees Drawing Academy. He worked as an assistant for the portrait artist, Allan Ramsay, before setting up as a portraitist in his own right. Finding insufficient demand for portraiture, Nasmyth turned to landscape painting, often with a focus on real locations, and to the design of landscape features such as the temple of St Bernard's Well, Edinburgh, and the bridge at Almondell, West Lothian. One of the drawings in this small collection records him working with his sons on making a model of Craigmillar Castle.

Accruals No accruals are to be expected.

Accession Number 2019/55

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1883732

Collection Hierarchy - Collection Level

Collection Level (551 632) Sketches by Alexander Nasmyth of Ravenscraig and Craigmillar Castles

Category	Catalogue Number	Title	Date	Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 312442	Drawing of Ravensheugh Castle inscribed '[...] Ravensheugh Castle, the point of sight for the drawing on the other side of this paper, AN, Fifeshire'.	1813	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 312443	Verso showing drawing of Kirkcaldy from Ravensheugh Castle inscribed 'Fifeshire'.	1813	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 312444	Drawing of bastion, Craigmillar Castle, Craigmillar Castle Road, Edinburgh inscribed 'a Bastien at Craigmillar, Sunday March 6, 1813, Midlothian'.	6/3/1813	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 312445	Verso inscribed 'September 4. 1822. Began to make observations and measurements of Craigmillar Castle in order to do a Modle for Mr M W Bulloch of London. My two sons G. and F. [...] on all days, 3G:. Sept 5 began the ground plan for the modle to a scale of 1/10 of an inch to the foot extent of the main body of the Castle to this scale outside measure not well fixed. AN'.	4/9/1822	Item Level
Prints and Drawings	DC 67840/2	Verso showing drawing of Kirkcaldy from Ravensheugh Castle inscribed 'Fifeshire'.	1813	Item Level
Prints and Drawings	DC 67841/1	Drawing of bastion, Craigmillar Castle, Craigmillar Castle Road, Edinburgh inscribed 'a Bastien at Craigmillar, Sunday March 6, 1813, Midlothian'.	6/3/1813	Item Level
Prints and Drawings	DC 67841/2	Verso inscribed 'September 4. 1822. Began to make observations and measurements of Craigmillar Castle in order to do a Modle for Mr M W Bulloch of London. My two sons G. and F. [...] on all days, 3G:. Sept 5 began the ground plan for the modle to a scale of 1/10 of an inch to the foot extent of the main body of the Castle to this scale outside measure not well fixed. AN'.	4/9/1822	Item Level
Prints and Drawings	DC 67840/1	Drawing of Ravensheugh Castle inscribed '[...] Ravensheugh Castle, the point of sight for the drawing on the other side of this paper, AN, Fifeshire'.	1813	Item Level

Sketches by Alexander Nasmyth of Ravenscraig and Craigmillar Castles

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