Monument to Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
after 1832
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 15 3/16 x 11 1/4 in. (38.6 x 28.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.562.6
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate graphite drawing, titled *Monument to Sir Walter, Bart.*, captures a proposed design for honoring the renowned Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott, who passed away in 1832. Created by British architect and draughtsman Charles Harriott Smith after, the work measures 15 3/16 x 11 1/4 inches and exemplifies 19th-century architectural drafting. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints, reflects the era's fascination with grand public monuments celebrating literary giants like Scott, whose Waverley novels shaped Romantic literature and natio...
About the Artist
Sir Walter Scott|Charles Harriott Smith (French|British, Scottish) · 1789 |1771 –1861 |1832
French, 1789–1861|British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1771–1832 Abbotsford, Scotland