James Drummond
Edinburgh Houses, below the Assembly Hall and Tolbooth Church, Lawnmarket
About this artwork
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artist:James Drummond (1816 - 1877) Scottish
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title:Edinburgh Houses, below the Assembly Hall and Tolbooth Church, Lawnmarket
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date created:Dated 1845
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materials:Pencil with red and white chalk heightening on grey paper
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measurements:17.50 x 23.40 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 3297
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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...