View of Glasgow

Owing to his family’s wealth, Place was able to travel widely, making the kind of sketching tours that would not become common practice among landscape artists until a century later. This drawing displays his attention to observed detail: he has rendered architecture in delicate lines, and he has achieved volume and shadow through subtle tonal washes. Place has annotated the sheet with a lettered key identifying prominent buildings, though the corresponding letters were never added or have been removed from the image. The town has been recently identified as Glasgow and the drawing has been dated to 1701.