MCCRACKEN, Francis;
Seen from Calton Hill, Edinburgh
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c.1935
Oil on canvas
635 x 765mm
Calton Hill, at the southern end of Princes Street, offers commanding views over Edinburgh. It is the site of a number of masterpieces of Scottish neo-classical architecture that give rise to the city’s reputation as the Athens of the North.
Inscriptions
F. McCRACKEN [l.r.] "SEEN FROM / CALTON HILL" / "EDINBURGH" ; FRANCIS McCRACKEN / 10 FORTH ST. EDINBURGH / SCOTLAND [label on stretcher]Provenance
1990–
Challenge Collection (later Fletcher Trust Collection), purchased from Dunbar Sloane, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, April 1990
–1990
Unknown