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From Renton, near Dumbarton, with the pillar to Smollett

Watercolour
1803 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Watercolour entitled 'From Renton, near Dumbarton, with the pillar to Smollett'. Signed, dated and inscribed with title by the artist.


Object details

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Object type
TitleFrom 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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.8cm
  • Width: 43.4cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Marks and inscriptions
  • J. S. Hayward (Signed)
  • 7 June, 1803 (Dated on the reverse with title)
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.
Subjects depicted
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Collection
Accession number
P.72-1984

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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