James Drummond
Group of Nine Figures on a Staircase. Study for the Painting 'The Porteous Mob'
About this artwork
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artist:James Drummond (1816 - 1877) Scottish
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title:Group of Nine Figures on a Staircase. Study for the Painting 'The Porteous Mob'
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date created:About 1855
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materials:Pencil and white heightening on buff paper
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measurements:36.60 x 27.30 cm
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object type:
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credit line:William Finlay Watson Bequest 1881
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accession number:D 3389
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James Drummond
James Drummond
Drummond was a history and genre painter, draughtsman and antiquary. His fascination with the history, antiquities and traditions of Edinburgh was first stimulated by his family’s occupancy of the Netherbow tenement which had been known since the eighteenth century as John Knox’s House. His...