[View looking up the West B[ow]. from the Cowgate.]

[SUNDERLAND, Thomas.]

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EDINBURGH - WEST BOW SKETCHED FROM THE COWGATE - [Edinburgh, c.1790.] Drawing, pen & wash on grey wove paper (17.8 x 27.4cm) window-mounted in modern conservation card, blank verso with eighteenth century pencil inscription: View looking up the West B[ow]. from the Cowgate , very good. A view of Edinburgh street life in the late eighteenth century, this pen and wash drawing depicting the View looking up the West B[ow]. from the Cowgate can be dated to c.1790. It was drawn by Thomas Sunderland (1744-1823), an amateur artist in watercolour, son of a wealthy Cumbrian ironmaster. This drawing is representative of his style - he worked in pen and ink with grey and blue washes, producing many drawings for his own amusement and as gifts. He is thought to have been a pupil of John Robert Cozens (1752-1797). Sunderland moved to Ulverston c.1770 and is known for his views of the Lake District. In addition to recording the architecture of this prominent central Edinburgh streetscape at the end of the eighteenth century, the drawing is of interest for the figures shown going about their business, in particular the depictions of women carrying baskets on their heads, a practive common in the early modern period that became obsolete during the nineteenth century. Provenance: with Wessex House, Odiham, c.1980.

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• Titre: [View looking up the West B[ow]. from the Cowgate.]
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