Gilnockie Tower, Scotland | ||
Gilnockie Tower | ||
locality:- | Hollows | |
locality:- | Thorniewhats | |
country:- | Scotland | |
locality type:- | tower | |
coordinates:- | NY382785 | |
1Km square:- | NY3878 | |
10Km square:- | NY37 | |
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CDS59.jpg (taken 23.8.2015) |
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evidence:- | old print:- |
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source data:- | Print, coloured, Johnie Armstrong at Gilnockie, by Joseph W Simpson, 1926. click to enlarge PR1199.jpg Half length depiction of Armstrong, full face, regarding the viewer. He stands with his right arm extended, resting on his sword. Behind him lies a wintry landscape with stone tower to left of composition and distant hills beyond. A band of his followers stand in middle distance. signed at top right on print:- "Simpson" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.23 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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evidence:- | old painting:- |
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source data:- | Painting, oil painting, Gilnockie Tower, Hollows, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland,
by William James Blacklock, 1843. click to enlarge PR1027.jpg To left of foreground stand two tall pine trees beneath which is seated a man, his back to the viewer, wearing traditional Scottish dress. Beyond a small whitewashed cottage stands Gilnockie Tower beside a field in which a shepherd tends his sheep. Beyond rises a wooded hillside and barren moorland. signed &dated at bottom right:- "W J Blacklock 1843" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1970.28.1 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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