About this artwork
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artist:Alexander Carse (about 1770 - 1843) Scottish
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title:A View in Leith, Edinburgh
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Pen, black-grey ink and watercolour on paper
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measurements:13.10 x 21.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 56
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Alexander Carse
Alexander Carse
Carse was an assistant to David Allan before the artist's death in 1796, and undoubtedly received preliminary artistic training from him. Allan's influence on Carse's small, vivacious genre scenes is evident. In 1801, he attended the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh, but this training did not yield...
