Item NMC/0415 - Cupid and Psyche

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NMC/0415

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Cupid and Psyche

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  • 1905 (Creation)

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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Composition of embroidered fruit and flowers (as triptych). In original frame. Design made for Longcroft, Helensburgh.

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(1867-1952)

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Painter and embroiderer. Wife of the architect Alexander Nisbet Paterson, and sister of the Glasgow School painter James Whitelaw Hamilton in 1897. Her family home was Long Croft in Helensburgh.

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Colonel Paterson, Helensburgh.

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Embroidery, coloured silks, gold and silver threads, beads.

Dimensions: 1400 x 1850 x 155 mm

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