Percy Portsmouth RSA 02/02/1874-19/10/1953

On top of the world sums up the mood in our Collections team, having recently taken custody of the gift of a major archive relating to one of our lesser-known past Members and one of the most influential sculptors working in Scotland in the earlier part of the 20th Century - Percival Herbert Portsmouth RSA (1874-1953), better known as Percy. On top of the world also references the fact that sculptural pieces by Portsmouth occupy two of the highest points of Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns respectively. At Edinburgh Castle,...