museums and institutions:
museums and institutions:
museums and institutions:
museums and institutions:
Attributed works:
107-109. La jardinière endormie, L'offrande à la villageoise, and L'aimable pastorale, by François Boucher. Each 229 by 89 cm. (National Gallery of Scotland). A set of three canvases which were formerly in the collection of Marchal de Saincy (d.1789); they were subsequently bought by Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild and hung at Mentmore. Purchased by private treaty sale from the estate of H. M. V. Showering.
Attributed works:
110. James Watt and the steam engine: the dawn of the nineteenth century, by James Eckford Lauder. 147.3 by 238.8 cm. (National Gallery of Scotland). Lauder's celebration of the modern age of steam was painted in 1855 and exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy's half of the newly erected National Gallery of Scotland building. This dramatic painting, with its obvious debt to Wright of Derby, is unusual in Lauder's career, his preferred subjects being generally selected from Scott or Shakespeare.
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113. Seton Palace and the Firth of Forth, by Alexander Keirincx. 45.6 by 68.5 cm. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery). This Landscape, Discovered and Identified Last Year, Contains the Only Known View of the Great Medieval and Renaissance Palace of Seton. It Was Painted for Charles I.
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114. The Musical Contest between Apollo and Masyas, by Giulio Sanuto. Engraving in Three Plates, 51.8 by 42.4 cm Each. (National Gallery of Scotland).
Attributed works:
115. Portrait of Mrs Fuseli, by Johann Heinrich Fuseli. Pen and Grey Wash over Traces of Black Chalk, 22 by 15.4 cm. Inscribed by the Artist '31 May 1800'. (National Gallery of Scotland). Purchased by Private Treaty from a Scottish Private Collection.
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116. Holy Family with St John in a Landscape, by Denys Calvaert. Oil on Copper, 42 by 32 cm. (National Gallery of Scotland). Dated by Stephen Pepper C.1593-94, a Close Variant is in the National Gallery, Warsaw, and Related Drawings are in the Albertina, Vienna and the Budapest Museum. Purchased with the Aid of the Patrons of the National Galleries of Scotland and the NACF.
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117. Close number 46, Saltmarket, by Thomas Annan. 1868-71. Albumen photograph, 27.9 by 22.5 cm. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery). One of thirty-one photographs from Thomas Annan's famous series Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, taken for the Glasgow Improvement Trust, which is remarkable not just as a social or historical document but as a group of strikingly beautiful photographs.
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118. Alexander III of Scotland rescued from the fury of a stag by the intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald, by Benjamin West. 1786. 366 by 521 cm. (National Gallery of Scotland). One of the earliest portrayals of Scottish history to be shown at the Royal Academy, it was commissioned by Francis Humberston Mackenzie to illustrate the legendary exploit of his ancestor in the thirteenth century. There is a preparatory oil-sketch at Petworth House, Sussex. Purchased with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the NACF, the Pilgrim Trust, Ross and Cromarty District Council and Mr Dennis F. Ward.
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119. Two Sleeping Figures with Still-Life of Flask and Bottles, by Pier Francesco Mola. Pen and Brush with Brown Ink, 20.4 by 28 cm. (National Gallery of Scotland).
Attributed works:
120. Spiral Theme, by Naum Gabo. 1941. Perspex, 7.5 by 11 by 12.5 cm. (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art).
Attributed works:
121. Clamp, by Bill Woodrow. 1986. Painted Metal, 248 by 67 by 51 cm. (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art).
Western art unattributed:
111. One of a Set of Eight Carved Oak Panels Made for Cardinal David Beaton, Scottish, before 1546. The Whole Measures 670 by 145 cm. (The Royal Museum of Scotland).
Western art unattributed:
112. Deposition from the Cross, a Miniature from the Murthly Hours. The Manuscript was Written and Illuminated in England in the Late 13th or Early 14th Century, but It Has Been in Scottish Ownership Since 1420. (National Library of Scotland).
