Thomas Crawford made this drawing of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery a year after its public opening in 1889. The artist suggests the scale of the building in relation to the minute figures of several passers by. The construction of the gallery became possible when John Ritchie Findlay, then owner of The Scotsman newspaper, donated £50,000 to the project. The architect Robert Rowand Anderson modelled his design partly on the Doge's palace in Venice, creating a magnificent neo-gothic building.