Unknown - Architectural Fantasy

Date:
c.1856
Reference:
DGH1/7/3/1/98
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Records of Crichton Royal Hospital
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Unknown - Architectural Fantasy. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Medium: Pencil, watercolour and oil Size: 34.5 x 28.8 An inscription reading 'during acute mania with degraded tendencies' is no longer visible due to the rehousing of art collection in 1989, and an inscription still visible reads, 'Glasgow', 'Bothwell'. This work has been attributed to William James Blacklock. This item is currently framed for display purposes.

Publication/Creation

c.1856

Physical description

1 picture

Biographical note

William James Blackwood (1816-1858) was a landscape painter, whose work focussed on scenes of Cumbria, the Lake District and Borders. He was a patient at Crichton Royal Institution from 1855 to 1858.

Related material

Art work by unknown artist attributed to William James Blacklock, Unknown - Craigmillar Castle from the South, DGH1/7/3/1/99; Letters from Patient (William James Blacklock), DGH1/5/35/1

Copyright note

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The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.

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