drawing
- Museum number
- Nn,6.35
- Description
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A blind beggar, one of the figure sketches made in Edinburgh and the neighbourhood after the rebellion of 1745; a blind beggar standing in the street, two men and a woman in the background
Pen and grey ink and grey wash, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1745-1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 114 millimetres
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Width: 111 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See curatorial comment for Nn,6.37 and see pp.124-125, of J. Bonehill and S.Daniels (ed), 'Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain', (London: Royal Academy of Arts), 2009, for further discussion of Sandby's depictions of Edinburgh street scenes.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1835
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased at Sloman Sale at Wheatley's, June 20 1835, Lot 113
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Nn,6.35
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1835,0711.52