Collections

"Fee Him, Father, Fee Him"

David Allan produced a set of drawings for Scottish Songs for the entrepreneur publisher George Thomson the "friend of Burns" (see drawing on page 13 of album in RSA Collection 1994.205) to which this watercolour possibly relates.

Object data

Date	c.1794
Accession	1992.062
Materials	Support paper
Dimensions	Sight 16.5cm x 21.7cm
Medium	Watercolour

Exhibitions

A Lighter Touch, Selected Watercolours from the RSA Permanent Collections

Dates: Jan 1, 2009 - Jan 31, 2009

Venue: Royal Scottish Academy

Location: Edinburgh

Tags

genre

Related work

David Allan Self Portrait

Painted by Allan during his stay in Rome. Ref Miles Chappell, “Further Observations on Agostino Carracci’s “Venus” in the Farnese Gallery”…

The Children of David Allan

View near Duddingston Loch

Thomson was responsible for painting the landscape

"Gaberlunzie Man"

David Allan produced a set of drawings for an unrealised Collection of Scottish Songs for the entrepreneur George Thomson (see drawing on page 50 of…

The Romans Polite to Strangers, Palzzo Ruspoli al Corso Rome

One of four prints after Allan's Rome sketches published by Sandby with extensive letterpress notes in 1780