Rosemary Watt
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First Steamboat on the Clyde
John Knox
c1820; oil on canvas
From Dalnottar Hill we see Henry Bell’s ‘Comet’ steaming down the Clyde, passing the Kilpatrick Hills. The distant mountains form part of the Argyll Highlands.
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Head of the Holy Loch
George Henry
1882; oil on canvas
Swooping seagulls form the focal point in the centre of this expansive view of the Holy Loch, a sea loch in Argyll and Bute.
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Skaters on a Frozen River
Pieter Bout (after)
c1671-180; oil on copper
Memories of winter cold ❄️ 🥶 Keeping warm and having fun by sledging and skating. Centre front, the curlers are busy!
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Sunset, Herblay, Opus 206
Paul Signac
1889; oil on canvas
Using the complementary colours blue and orange, Signac captures the soft, gentle glow of sunset light at Herblay, a village on the river Seine.
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The Blute-Fin Windmill, Montmartre
Vincent van Gogh
1886; oil on canvas
Two windmills in one scene - the Moulin à Poivre is on the left horizon. The Blute-Fin windmill offered amazing views of Paris.
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Owl and Bees
Joseph Crawhall
c1900-1904; watercolour & bodycolour on linen
Two creatures we don't expect to see together. If you have an owl box you'll know bees love hives in owl nests! 🐝🐝🐝🦉
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#Spring 🌱
Spring Flowers
Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour
1878; oil on canvas
Whistler on Fantin Latour -
"... grace is wedded to dignity, how strength enhances sweetness, that elegance shall be the result."
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#fashion 📸
A Lady
Andrew Geddes
c1818; oil on canvas
Looking very fine in her white cotton Pelisse dress and a cap beneath her leghorn straw bonnet, this lady - identity unknown - holds us in her steady gaze.
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#Valentines & Palentines 💞
Mirror case; valve de miroir
"Attack on the Castle of Love"
French, c1340; ivory, gilt
Rich with imagery of courtship, love, sexual desire! Atop is the God of Love & heart piercing arrow💘
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Collar
Jessie Newbery
c1900; linen, silk, glass
Jessie Rowat Newbery was the creative driving force behind the establishment, in 1900, of the renowned Embroidery Department at the Glasgow School of Art.
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interiors & the home
Interior, The White Sofa
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell
c1930
oil on board
Two interiors in one! Cadell’s ‘The Red Chair’ - c1922 - is on the floor, leaning against the wall behind the arm of the white sofa.
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celebrating 20c women artists
'Honesty Mirror'
Frances Macdonald
c1896; beaten tin, wood, glass
This extraordinary mirror never lies, ever! 🪞
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"Steamer 'Swift' at Port Dundas"
David Small
1870; watercolour on paper and card
This little steamer worked the Forth & Clyde Canal. Its prow was fitted with a sharp iron scroll to slice through towing rope obstructions!
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Christmas and New Year of 1931
Jessie Marion King
1931; lithograph, watercolour, paper
Angelic season's greetings from the Taylors - Jessie Marion King and Ernest Archibald Taylor 💞🌟🎄
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#Journeys
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Broadford Pier, Skye
Muirhead Bone
c.1928-1929; oil on canvas
Glasgow Museums
This rare oil by Bone depicts the paddle steamer 'Glencoe' heading out on its daily journey from Portree via Raasay, Broadford and Kyle of Lochalsh to Mallaig. 
