, Princes Street with the Commencement of the Building of The Royal Institution (1825) and Edinburgh from the Calton Hill (1820), are set on the east-facing wall of the new Scottish galleries. Naysmith's paintings are set on either side of a window, a series of five that face east, looking out towards Princes Street Gardens, Waverley Station and the Scott Monument. The new galleries are the latest iterations of the site that joins the Royal Scottish Academy building, named the Royal Institution in Naysmith's day, and that of the National, one of several buildings across Edinburgh owned by the National Galleries of Scotland. The suite of 12 rooms, built at a cost of £40 million , is a new facility){kind=link}
Two paintings by Alexander Naysmith (1758-1840), Princes Street with the Commencement of the Building of The Royal Institution (1825) and Edinburgh from the Calton Hill (1820), are set on the east-facing wall of the new Scottish galleries.
Naysmith’s paintings are set on either side of a window, a series of five that face east, looking out towards Princes Street Gardens, Waverley Station and the Scott Monument. The new galleries are the latest iterations of the site that joins the Royal Scottish Academy building, named the Royal Institution in Naysmith’s day, and that of the National, one of several buildings across Edinburgh owned by the National Galleries of Scotland.
The suite of 12 rooms, built at a cost of £40 million, is a new facility
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