View from Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

5040

Title

View from Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Description

A view looking down across rooftops and chimneys to distant spires and towers on the horizon. From the left a road passes between the houses into the distance. The buildings in the foreground are surrounded by vegetation and leafy trees.

Artist / maker

Rose, David T.

Date

1942

Size

28.7 x 39 cm

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

David Thomas Rose was born in the Scottish Borders and brought up in Nairn.
His first job took him to Glasgow in 1896 where he studied in night classes in Glasgow Academy of Art.
Family summer holidays were mostly taken in Scotland. His sister became a eminent obstetrician, working in Edinburgh and the Roses would often stay with her in Joppa or with other family in Fife. While there in 1933 Rose sketched prolifically, especially in the Dean Village and Leith Docks.

Calton Hill is situated at the east end of Princes Street in Edinburgh. It rises to a height of 108 metres and is another of the city's hills created by volcanic activity. Several monuments stand on the hill. Most prominent amongst these are the Nelson Monument, built in the shape of a telescope, and the unfinished National Monument, modelled on the Parthenon in Athens.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Chimneys

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Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton Hill

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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