Roslyn Chapel

Auguste Edouart

1832 · Cut paper silhouette, graphite, and brush and brown wash · Drawings and Prints

During the three years Edouart spent in Edinburgh, he completed roughly five thousand silhouettes, including works that record important sights much like his portraits that document the likenesses of their subjects. He visited nearby Rosslyn Chapel (which he has spelled "Roslyn") to create this rendering of the fifteenth-century structure’s interior in wash, to which he later added silhouettes of visitors.

Artist

Auguste Edouart

Date

1832

Medium

Cut paper silhouette, graphite, and brush and brown wash

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938