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Key to Wilkie's painting of John Knox administering the Sacrament at Calder House

The composition of Wilkie’s unfinished oil sketch (now NGS 323) was appropriated by Hill for the centre focus of his huge commemorative oil The…

Compositional sketch for Sir William Worthy disguised as a spaeman telling Patie's fortune, vide The Gentle Shepherd Act 3 Scene 2

The subject is not identified but is probably a preparatoty sketch for the picture exhibited by Hill at the 1830 RSA Annual exhibition; Sir William…

Compositional sketch for The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland Signing the Act of Separation and the Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh, May 1843

A Meeting

The sketches have been drawn on the outer and inner faces of an envelope addressed to John Elder Esq WS/ Frederick Street. Elder served as the…

Compositional sketch of High Street, Edinburgh, looking towards John Knox’s House

The sketch may date to the earlier part of Hill's career. He made a couple of sketches of the Old High Street during the great conflagration which…

A leafy country road with a couple before a cottage

The page has been removed from a sketchbook

A clearing amongst trees

The location is not identified, however the presence of written notes within the sketch suggests that it may have been intended as a preparatory…

Study of poplars

The location is not identified. The sketch of the poplar is rather flat and clumsy and is more likely to be from later in his career.

Profile study of a child's head

A busy street scene

Pastoral townscape

Trees behind a wall with ruin in background

The page has been removed from a sketchbook The massing of the ruin in the background bears similarities with the twin blocks of Huntingtower Castle…