View of a Town, perhaps Glasgow

Maker Francis Place (British, 1647-1728)

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Daten.d.

Mediumpen and brown ink and gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (12.1 x 19.7 cm.)

InscribedInscriptions See references

MarkingsNumerous

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Sir Bruce Ingram Collection

Label TextOwing to his family’s wealth, Place was able to travel widely, making the kind of sketching tours that would not become common practice among landscape artists until a century later. This drawing displays his attention to observed detail: he has rendered architecture in delicate lines, and he has achieved volume and shadow through subtle tonal washes. Place has annotated the sheet with a lettered key identifying prominent buildings, though the corresponding letters were never added or have been removed from the image. Though carefully described, the town has not been definitively identified (2022).

Status

Not on view

Object number63.52.175

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