"Three Views of St Bernards Well, Water of Leith" by Alexander Dyce, c.1810

Ink on paper:
1) 4 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (12 x 19.2 cm.)
2) 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (12 x 19.1 cm.)
3) 3 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (8.8 x 18.6 cm.)
Probably Charles Wilmott wove paper from 1808
Painted circa 1810
1+2 framed in simple black stained wood frames, behind glass. 3 is unframed.
 
Provenance:
Professor Sidney Newman CBE (1906–1971), by 1953;
Somerset & Wood Fine Art.
 

Highly charming naive drawings by Alexander Dyce, then a twelve-year-old child but later a highly respected Reverend-cum-literary scholar, whose impressive collection of Elizabethan literature was bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum). Dyce was born and educated in Edinburgh, but otherwise raised in Aberdeen before he left for Exeter College at Oxford University.

These particular drawings, formerly part of a sketchbook, show St Bernard's Well monument, which was designed by the famous landscape painter Alexander Nasmyth, standing proudly by the Water of Leith in Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
 
Prof. Newman CBE was a prominent Scotsman who was Reid Professor of Music and Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Edinburgh (1941–1970).
 
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