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"Inspired" 32 artists respond to a piece in the collection of the open today 11-4.

Matthew Draper - Luminous, a View of Tantallon Castle with Bass Rock (Homage to Alexander Nasmyth Part II), Pastel on Paper, 102cm x 169cm.

https://t.co/TgOjBiK8fM

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2022-09-28

"A steam hammer at work" (1971) by James Hall Nasmyth.

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2022-03-04

1842 James Nasmyth patented his steam hammer🔨

It was built at his Patricroft foundry next to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bridgewater Canal.

This painting in the collections, by Nasmyth himself, shows one at work: https://t.co/vaUTbn4Uql

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2021-12-08

Alexander Nasmyth, 1758 – 1840, Scottish painter, The Grampians

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2021-05-19

Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840) peintre écossais.

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2020-12-19

Born in 1758: Scottish painter (1758-1840)

Portrait of Eleanor and Margaret Ross, 1785-90

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2020-09-09

i designed a telescope for merfolk astronomers with roughly a nasmyth focus once for a piece of art during the "mermay" art challenge.
In retrospect this is a silly design and there are better alternatives.

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2020-08-20

An founding aim of 1826 was to nurture & sustain the Scottish artistic community. RSA often also taught, and so Elisabeth M Ouchterlony (1776-1854) learned the style from the father of Scottish

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2020-06-29

10 avril 1840 : Décès d’Alexander Nasmyth, peintre écossais

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2020-04-10

Fast-forward a couple of years, and we’ve got Meg and her husband Herc and Kas and his husband Alaizail, and their collective group of kids, Volkar (Meg’s boy) and Nasmyth and Kryta (Kas’s girls)... oh, and Venosn’a the ice cat; Herc, Alaizail, and Kryta belong to

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2020-04-04

1842 James Nasmyth patented his steam hammer 🔨 Built at his Patricroft foundry next to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bridgewater Canal, there's one on display in Making the Modern World Gallery https://t.co/VsBOlJDdVv 🔨🔨

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2019-12-08

This is the classic painting by James Nasmyth... (no cows were harmed in the making of)

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2019-06-19

Day 14 - 1 hr master study, Patrick Nasmyth "landscape with a pond."

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2015-03-18