From Renton, near Dumbarton, with the pillar to Smollett
Watercolour
1803 (painted)
1803 (painted)
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Watercolour entitled 'From Renton, near Dumbarton, with the pillar to Smollett'. Signed, dated and inscribed with title by the artist.
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Title | From Renton, near Dumbarton, with the pillar to Smollett (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
Brief description | Watercolour entitled 'From Renton, near Dumbarton, with the pillar to Smollett' by John Samuel Hayward. Great Britain, 1803. |
Physical description | Watercolour entitled 'From Renton, near Dumbarton, with the pillar to Smollett'. Signed, dated and inscribed with title by the artist. |
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Object history | Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish satirical novelist, best known for his picaresque novels The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and his epistolary novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). He was from Dumbarton but died in Italy where there is a decorated tomb in the Old English Cemetery of Livorno which commemorates him. |
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Accession number | P.72-1984 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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