Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is one of eleven schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing its history back to 1760, it provides higher education in art and design, architecture, history of art, and music disciplines for over three thousand students and is at the forefront of research and research-led teaching in the creative arts, humanities, and creative technologies. ECA comprises five subject areas: School of Art, Reid School of Music, School of Design, School of History of Art, and Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA). ECA is mainly located in the

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of Edinburgh, overlooking the Grassmarket; the Lauriston Place campus is located in the University of Edinburgh's Central Area Campus, not far from George Square. The college was founded in 1760, and gained its present name and site in 1907. Formerly associated with

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, its degrees have been issued by the University of Edinburgh since 2004. The college formally merged with the university on 1 August 2011, combining with the School of Arts, Culture and Environment and continues to exist with the name Edinburgh College of Art as an enlarged school in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

History

Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) can trace its history back to 1760, when the Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh was established by the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland. This board had been set up by Act of Parliament in 1727 to "encourage and promote the fisheries or such other manufactures and improvements in Scotland as may most conduce to the general good of the United Kingdom". The aim of the academy was to train designers for the manufacturing industries. Drawing and the design of patterns for the textile industries were taught at the Academy's rooms at Picardy Place. The board was responsible for the construction of the Royal Institution (named for the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland), now the

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, on The Mound and also commissioned the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on Queen Street. From 1826, classes were held at the Royal Institution building. The master of the school was always a fine artist, the first being French painter

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. Subsequent masters included Alexander Runciman and David Allan. The academy's focus gradually shifted from applied arts to encompass fine art, and the school gained a reputation for excellence in both painting and design. Scottish artists who were trained at the Academy include

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, Alexander Nasmyth and Andrew Wilson. In 1858, the academy was affiliated to the Science and Art Department in London, known as the " South Kensington system", under which it became the Government School of Art for the city of Edinburgh. A School of Applied Art was also established under this system. The Drawing School became part of a system of schools managed on similar lines, and distinctive teaching practices were lost. In 1903 it amalgamated with the School of Applied Art. In 1907, the Scottish Education Department took over responsibility for the school, and it became Edinburgh College of Art. ECA was officially recognised by the Scottish Government as a Small Specialist Institution for the teaching of art, design and architecture prior to the merger with University of Edinburgh in 2011. From 1968 it was associated with

for degree awarding purposes but the validation agreement with Heriot-Watt University was due to end in 2012. In 2004 ECA partnered with the University of Edinburgh for degree awarding purposes, an Academic Federation Agreement to facilitate closer collaboration was put in place between the two institutions in 2007 and they merged in 2011. At the time the merger plan was announced in January 2011, Scottish Government Education Secretary Mike Russell criticised the financial management of ECA. The joint Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) formed in August 2009 as a joint venture between ECA and the University of Edinburgh. The first professorship in an ECA subject area was the Reid Professor of Music, which was created in 1839, with the first holder being Scottish composer John Thomson who conducted the first Reid concert in 1841. The Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art founded some forty years later, the first of its kind in the British Isles and a turning point in the teaching of the History of Art. In 2005, the College joined with Edinburgh Napier University to launch the Screen Academy Scotland, a new centre of excellence in film learning and education.

College buildings

Sculpture Court in the Edinburgh College of Art

With the creation of Edinburgh College of Art in 1907, the institution moved to new premises on Lady Lawson Street. Formerly a cattle market, the site lies above the Grassmarket and opposite

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. The red sandstone main building was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by

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while working for John More Dick Peddie and George Washington Browne, and was completed in 1909. The main building was listed Category A in 1970. Inside, the Sculpture Court displays casts of the Elgin Marbles and other antique statuary, alongside changing displays of contemporary student's work. The Architecture Building was added to the east end of the college in 1961, designed by architect Ralph Cowan, who was a Professor of Architecture at the college. In 1977 the Lauriston Campus was expanded with the addition of the Hunter Building. This L-shaped red sandstone block, designed by Anthony Wheeler in 1971, encloses the college courtyard and fronts Lauriston Place to the south. In the 1990s the college took over a separate group of buildings in the Grassmarket, for use as a library and teaching space, and also took over the former Salvation Army building on West Port. These buildings in the Grassmarket and West Port were disposed of after the College purchased Evolution House. The nine-storey Evolution House on West Port by Reiach and Hall Architects was completed 2003, adjacent to the main College building. Built as speculative offices, it now houses the art and design library, as well as providing design studios and office facilities for the School of Design. While the college remains mainly concentrated on the Lauriston Place Campus, as a result of the merger with the University of Edinburgh in August 2011, the new enlarged ECA incorporated Minto House on Chambers Street (part of ESALA) and Alison House in Nicolson Square (Reid School of Music). In 2017, the Lauriston Campus expanded to include the former Lothian & Borders Fire & Rescue Service Headquarters, formerly housing the'Museum of Fire', Building (arch. Robert Morham, 1897-1901). The Wee Red Bar serves as the student union bar, and acts as a year-round venue for gigs and theatre shows, and also acts a venue during the

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Notable alumni and academics

Architects

* Rab and

Denise Bennetts Denise Margaret Mary Bennetts FRIAS (born 1953) is a British architect and co-founder of Bennetts Associates, an architecture firm based in England. Bennetts has won multiple awards and her company's most recent project was Bayes Centre for the ...

, founders of Bennetts Associates *

David J. Burney David Burney is a public architect and educator. He was born in Liverpool, England and educated at Edinburgh College of Art and The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment of University College London (UCL). He is the Academic Coordinator ...

, commissioner at the

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* Alan Balfour, former dean of the Georgia Tech College of Architecture *

Theodore S. Clerk Theodore Shealtiel Clerk, (4 September 1909 – 1965) was an urban planner on the Gold Coast and the first formally trained, professionally certified Ghanaian architect. Attaining a few historic firsts in his lifetime, Theodore Clerk became th ...

, (1909–1965), city planner, first Ghanaian architect and developer of the port city of Tema * Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (born 1939), architect of the Eden Project, president of the

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since 2004 * Sir William Kininmonth (1904–1988), architect of Adam House and Pollock Halls, both in Edinburgh * John McAslan, architect * Sir Robert Matthew (1906–1975), designed the Royal Commonwealth Pool and founded RMJM * Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith (born 1927), conservation architect and head of ECA's Department of Architecture 1978–1988 * Patrick Nuttgens (1930–2004), academic and writer on architecture *

B. Marcus Priteca Benjamin Marcus Priteca (23 December 1889 – 1 October 1971) was a Scottish architect. He is best known for designing theatres for Alexander Pantages. Early life Benjamin Marcus Priteca was born into a Jewish family in Glasgow on 23 December 1 ...

(1889–1971), theatre architect * Sir Basil Spence (1907–1976), architect of

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and the New Zealand Parliament Building (nicknamed 'The Beehive') in Wellington, New Zealand

Artists

Sarah Gough Adamson Sarah Gough Adamson, later Sarah Gough Walker, (1888–1963) was a British artist. Although she was born in Manchester, Gough established her reputation as a landscape painter in Scotland. Biography Adamson was born in Manchester where her fath ...

, landscape painter *

Sam Ainsley Sam Ainsley (born 1950) is a British artist and teacher, living and working in Glasgow, who was the founder and former head of the Master of Fine Art (MFA) programme at the Glasgow School of Art. Biography Ainsley was born in North Shields, the ...

, artist *

Barbara Balmer Barbara Balmer RSA (23 September 1929 – 31 December 2017) was a Scottish artist and teacher. Biography Balmer was born in Birmingham and, between 1946 and 1951, studied art at Coventry School of Art and then at the Edinburgh College of Art. ...

, painter *

Violet Banks Violet Banks (3 March 1896 – 1985) was a Scottish artist who painted in oils and watercolours and also decorated pottery. Biography Banks was born in Kinghorn in Fife and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. She lived in Kirkcaldy for a t ...

, painter *

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Order of the British Empire, CBE (8 June 1912 – 26 January 2004) was one of the foremost British Abstract art, abstract artists, a member of the influential Penwith Society of Arts. Early life Wilhelmina Barns-Graha ...

, artist * Mardi Barrie, artist * Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, artist * John Blair, artist *

Elizabeth York Brunton Elizabeth York Brunton (1880 – c. 1960) was a Scottish artist known as a painter in both oils and watercolours and for her use of colour woodcuts. Although she lived in Edinburgh for most of her life, her exhibiting career was mainly overseas. ...

, painter and printmaker * Hugh Buchanan, artist *

Alexander Beauchamp Cameron Alexander Beauchamp Cameron (1905–1981) was a Scottish artist. He was a portrait painter, watercolourist, master copier and exhibitor. He was commissioned by many famous Scots of the time, and his paintings were featured at the Royal Scotti ...

, painter * Paul Carter, artist *

John Kingsley Cook John Kingsley Cook (1911-1994) was an English artist, teacher and wood engraver. Biography Cook was born in Winchcombe in Gloucestershire and studied art at the Royal Academy Schools, where he was taught by both Walter Thomas Monnington and Wa ...

, artist and College lecturer *

Stanley Cursiter Stanley Cursiter (29 April 1887 – 22 April 1976) was an Orcadian artist who played an important role in introducing Post-impressionism and Futurism to Scotland. He served as the keeper (1919–1930), then director (1930–1948), of the Nati ...

, artist * Alan Davie, artist *

Mabel Dawson Mabel Dawson (13 October 1887 – 1965) was a Scottish artist who painted a wide variety of subjects, including animals and birds, in both watercolour and tempera. Biography Dawson was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Edinburgh College of A ...

, painter * Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers, painter * Yvonne Drewry, painter and printmaker * Jean Duncan, painter and printmaker *

Moyna Flannigan Moyna Flannigan (born 1963) is a Scottish artist working primarily in drawing, collage and painting. Flannigan is best known for her imagined paintings of women in psychologically charged situations. "The real subject of my paintings is space, bo ...

, painter and printmaker * William Geissler, artist * William George Gillies, artist *

Tom Gourdie Tom Gourdie MBE, DA, FSSI (18 May 1913 – 6 January 2005) was a prominent Scottish calligrapher, artist and teacher. He also was the author of several books, mainly on subject matter related to calligraphy. Early life and initiation into call ...

, artist * Sir James Gunn, artist *

Charles Martin Hardie Charles Martin Hardie (16 March 1858 – 3 September 1916) was a Scottish artist and portrait painter. Born in East Linton in East Lothian in Scotland, the son of Mary ''née'' Martin (1817–1901) and John Hardie (1820–1870), a Master Car ...

, artist * William Hole, artist *

Gwyneth Leech Gwyneth Leech is an American artist. She is best known for her use of paper coffee cups as a canvas for her artistic pieces and for her paintings of high-rise construction projects. Career Leech began drawing on empty paper coffee cups during meet ...

, artist *

Tessa Lynch Tessa Lynch (born 1984 in Epsom, Surrey) is a British artist. She lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. She mimics objects and scenarios found in the urban landscape, charting the emotional impact of our built environment and the structures that sh ...

, artist * William McLaren, artist * Wendy McMurdo, artist *

Caroline McNairn Caroline McNairn (16 May 1955 – 29 September 2010) was a Scottish figurative painter. Biography Caroline McNairn was born in Selkirk in 1955. Her father (John McNairn) and grandfather (also John McNairn) were also painters. Her father di ...

, artist *

David Michie David Michie OBE, RSA, PSSA, FRSA, RGI (30 November 1928 – 24 August 2015) was a Scottish artist of international stature. Life The third son of the architect and painter James Beattie Michie, and the renowned Scottish artist Anne Redpath ...

, artist * John Maxwell, artist * Robert Montgomery, artist and poet * Katie Paterson, artist and Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh (2013) * Sir Robin Philipson, artist * John Platt, artist * Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie, aka Somewhere * Barbara Rae, painter and printmaker * Anne Redpath, artist * Patrick Reyntiens, artist * Paul Rooney, artist * Helen Stevenson, printmaker * Alan Sutherland, artist *

Adam Bruce Thomson Adam Bruce Thomson OBE, RSA, PRSW (22 February 1885 – 4 December 1976) or ‘Adam B’ as he was often called at Edinburgh College of Art, was a painter perhaps best known for his oil and water colour landscape paintings, particularly ...

, artist *

Clare Twomey Clare Twomey (born 1968 in Ipswich) is a London-based visual artist and researcher, working in performance, serial production, and site-specific installation. Education and academic career Twomey attended the Edinburgh College of Art from 199 ...

, artist * Richard Wright, artist, winner of the 2009 Turner Prize

Painters

* John Bellany, painter * William Crozier, painter *

Victorine Foot Victorine Anne Foot (1 May 1920 – 2000) was a British artist who worked in oils, watercolours and pastels. Foot is best known for her work during World War II on military camouflage and for her post-war career as an artist and teacher in Sco ...

, painter * William Gear, painter *

Alan Gourley Alan Stenhouse Gourley (13 April 1909 – 9 September 1991) was a South African-British painter and stained glass artist. He attended the Glasgow School of Art in 1928 and the Edinburgh College of Art between 1929 and 1931. He moved to Sou ...

– painter and stained glass artist *

Nicola Green Nicola Green (born 1972) is a British portrait painter, social historian, and public speaker. Her subjects have included the Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, and Diana, Princess of Wales. In 2005, Green married the Labour politician David Lammy, wh ...

, painter * Callum Innes, painter and Turner Prize nominee * Lady

Caroline Kininmonth Lady Caroline Kininmonth (1907-1978) was a British artist, known for her paintings of flowers and landscapes in both oil and watercolours. Biography Kininmonth spent most of her life in Edinburgh and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art from ...

, painter * David McClure, painter *

Alexander McNeish Alexander McNeish (1932-2000) was a Scottish artist. Alexander McNeish was born at Bo'ness, near Linlithgow on the Firth of Forth, Scotland, the son of a coal miner. He attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1952 to 1957 studying under John Maxwel ...

, painter * Sir William MacTaggart, painter *

Emily Murray Paterson Emily Murray Paterson RSW SWA (1855–1934) was a Scottish artist, connected with the Glasgow School and member of the Society of Women Artists. Life and work Emily Paterson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1855. Her father, Duncan Wilkie Pa ...

, painter *

Janet Pierce Janet Pierce (born 1947) is a Scottish-born painter based in Ireland. She is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists. Early life Pierce was born in Edinburgh in 1947. Career Pierce studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Mor ...

, painter *

Samuel Robin Spark Samuel Robin Spark (9 July 1938 – 6 August 2016) was a Scottish artist. He was the son of Sidney Oswald Spark and writer Muriel Spark. Prolific in his work, he created more than 1,000 paintings, photographs, and short texts and articles about ...

, painter * David Dougal Williams, painter

Sculptors

Phyllis Bone Phyllis Mary Bone RSA (15 February 1894 – 12 July 1972) was a 20th-century Scottish sculptor. She has the particular claim to fame as being the first female Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy. Although primarily the creator of smal ...

, sculptor *

Mary Syme Boyd Mary Syme Boyd (15 August 1910 – 30 October 1997) was a Scottish artist and sculptor who studied at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1929 to 1933. She became known for her animal sculptures and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) an ...

, sculptor * Alexander Carrick, sculptor and academic *

Fanny Lam Christie Fanny Lam Christie (born 1952) is a Hong Kong-born artist who specializes in sculpture and works in Scotland. She currently works from her studio in Perthshire, Scotland. Education In 2004, Christie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Hono ...

, sculptor * Christopher Hall, sculptor * David Harding, sculptor * Pilkington Jackson, sculptor of the Robert the Bruce statue at Bannockburn, and the college war memorial (1922) *

Donald Locke Donald Cuthbert Locke (17 September 1930 – 6 December 2010) was a Guyanese artist who created drawings, paintings and sculptures in a variety of media. He studied in the United Kingdom, and worked in Guyana and the United Kingdom before movin ...

, sculptor * Hew Lorimer, sculptor *

Elizabeth Ogilvie Elizabeth Ogilvie (born 1946) is a Scottish environmental artist renowned for her work exploring the effects of climate change, impact of climate change. Her work is held in several public and private collections and she exhibits internationally ...

, sculptor * James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, sculptor *

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (, ; 7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art. Early years Eduardo Paolozzi was born on 7 March ...

, sculptor and artist *

Scott Sutherland Scott Sutherland (15 May 1910 – 10 October 1984) was a Scottish sculptor, best known for the Commando Memorial in Spean Bridge. He was Head of Sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Life Scott Sutherland was born in 1910, the son ...

, sculptor

Musicians

Louise Alder Louise Alder (born 25 November 1986) is a British lyric soprano. She won the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition and the Young Singer award at the 2017 International Opera Awards. Her deb ...

, Soprano * Sandy Brown, Scottish jazz clarinettist *

Anna Clyne Anna Clyne (born 9 March 1980, in London) is an English composer, now resident in New York, US. She has worked in both acoustic music and electro-acoustic music. Biography Clyne began writing music as a child, completing her first composition a ...

, Composer * Django Django, band *

Al Fairweather Alastair Fairweather (12 June 1927 – 21 June 1993) was a British jazz trumpeter, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Educated at the city's Royal High School and Edinburgh College of Art, Fairweather served his National Service in Egypt. In 194 ...

, Scottish jazz trumpeter * Futuristic Retro Champions, Scottish ElectroPop band * John Maclean, member of The Beta Band and The Aliens. * Sir James MacMillan, Composer and Conductor * The Magnificents, Scottish rock band *

Jamie Muir Jamie Muir (born 1943 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish painter and former musician, best known for his work as the percussionist in King Crimson from 1972–1973. Biography Muir attended the Edinburgh College of Art during the 1960s, and began playi ...

, percussionist with Music Improvisation Company, King Crimson, Giles, Muir, Cunningham * The Rezillos, 1970s new wave band, featuring

Jo Callis John William "Jo" Callis (born 2 May 1951) is an English musician and songwriter who played guitar with the Edinburgh based punk rock band The Rezillos (under the name Luke Warm), and post-punk band Boots for Dancing before joining The Human ...

who went on to The Human League * Donald Runnicles, Conductor * Rebecca Saunders, composer * Roy Williamson, member of The Corries, and author of '' Flower of Scotland''

Writers

* John Arden, playwright *

Alan Bold Alan Norman Bold (1943–1998) was a Scottish poet, biographer, journalist and saxophonist. He was born in Edinburgh. He edited Hugh MacDiarmid's ''Letters'' and wrote the influential biography ''MacDiarmid''. Bold had acquainted himself with Mac ...

, poet *

Ruthven Todd Ruthven Campbell Todd (pronounced 'riven') (14 June 1914 – 11 October 1978) was a Scottish poet, artist and novelist, best known as an editor of the works of William Blake, and expert on his printing techniques. During the 1940s he also wrote d ...

, poet, novelist

Other

Dorothy Angus Dorothy Angus (1891–1979) was a Scottish embroidery artist Biography Anna Dorothy Angus was the daughter of the Presbyterian Minister James Angus in Stirling, Scotland and was born in 1891. Angus attended Edinburgh College of Art. She went o ...

, embroidery artist *

Harriet Braine Harriet Braine is a musical comedian and archivist. In 2017 she won the Funny Women Awards, for which she was mentored by Ellie Taylor, and she was Best Newcomer at the Musical Comedy Awards. The same year Braine was a finalist in the So You Thin ...

, musical comedian and archivist *

Shashi Caan Shashi Caan a design futurist, educator and author, her dedication to furthering human betterment through and by design is reflected in her 25-year design career. Biography Shashi Caan was educated at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, BF ...

, interior architect/designer and president of

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Rose Ferraby Rose Ferraby is an archaeologist and artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a ...

, archaeologist and artist * Holly Fulton, fashion designer *

Tom Gauld Tom Gauld (born 1976) is a Scottish cartoonist and illustrator. His style reflects his self-professed fondness of "deadpan comedy, flat dialogue, things happening offstage and impressive characters". Others note that his work "combines pathos w ...

, cartoonist and illustrator *

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, fashion designer * Katie Leung, stage and screen actress - obtained photography degree * John Maclean, film director *

Ryan McHenry Ryan McHenry (13 December 1987 – 2 May 2015) was a Scottish film director best known for the film ''Zombie Musical'' in which he received a nomination for the Best Director accolade at the 2011 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards. '' ...

, film director *

Kerry Anne Mullaney Kerry Mullaney is a Scottish film director, writer and producer. She won the 2009 Best Director (Silver Unicorn) award at the 10th Estepona International Horror and Fantasy Film Festival for her 2008 triller/horror film '' The Dead Outside''. Sh ...

, film director *

David Shaw Nicholls David Shaw Nicholls (born 1959) is a Scottish architects, Scottish architect and designer based in New York City, Italy and Glasgow. He became internationally known by his minimalist ASFLEXI Couch, settee, conceived while in school. Life N ...

, designer & architect *

Sandy Paris Alexander 'Sandy' Paris (29 August 1908 — 19 August 1990) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and schoolmaster. Paris was born in August 1908 at Torphichen, West Lothian. He was educated at Linlithgow Academy, before matriculating to the E ...

, cricketer *

Aileen Paterson Aileen Francis Paterson (née Henderson) MBE (30 November 1934 – 23 March 2018) was a Scottish writer and illustrator, best known for her series of children's books about Maisie MacKenzie, the kitten. Biography Aileen Paterson was born in t ...

writer and illustrator of children's books *

Adam Robson Adam Robson (16 August 1928 – 15 March 2007) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a flanker. Rugby union career Amateur career He was playing for the Edinburgh College of Art. A relative Andrew Gordon suggested he pl ...

, rugby player, former head of the Scottish Rugby Union * Alexander White, footwear designer

References

* ''Notes on the Early History of the Royal Scottish Academy'', George Harvey, (Edmonston & Douglas, 1873)
Archives of Scottish Higher Education

External links

Edinburgh College of Art home page
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