A View in Glen Coe, Argyllshire

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Artist Alexander Nasmyth (Scottish, 1758–1840)

Title A View in Glen Coe, Argyllshire

Date 1814

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Framed: 44 × 36 × 3 1/8 in. (111.8 × 91.4 × 7.9 cm)
Stretcher: 35 × 27 in. (88.9 × 68.6 cm)

Credit Line Anonymous Gift, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 91.190

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In keeping with the late eighteenth-century British taste for “picturesque” and “sublime” landscapes, Alexander Nasmyth’s painting portrays one of the most picturesque areas in the Scottish highlands—Glencoe, which features craggy mountains formed by an ancient volcano. In Scotland, however, the production of landscape views that were identifiably Scottish also reflected efforts to forge a distinct national identity. Glencoe, the site of the notorious massacre of thirty-eight men from Clan MacDonald in 1692, maintained a significant place in Scottish history.

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