Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Alexander Nasmyth, 1758–1840, British
Title:: View of the City of Edinburgh
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 55 7/8 x 82 5/8 inches (141.9 x 209.9 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1974.3.21
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: hill | university | light | city | people | cathedral | landscape | waterfall | cityscape | river | clouds | mountains
Associated Places:: Leith, Water of | United Kingdom | Edinburgh | Scotland | Midlothian | University of Edinburgh | St Giles' Cathedral | Old College | Calton Hill
Currently On View:: Not on view
Exhibition History:: The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 170-171, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 33, 77, no. 19, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:181