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| 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 enlargePR1199.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 enlargePR1027.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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