📣Calling all Young Art Explorers! We need your help to name our cartoon blackbuck who appears on our new family labels in the Hunterian Art Gallery . We’ve narrowed it down to three choices: Stubbs, Buckie or Curly. Share your choice

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"Veronica, Walberswick". Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1915.
Image: Hunterian

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🎄👑Have a very 'Mary' Christmas! This special Mary Queen of Scots card was inspired by our exhibition ‘The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots’ and created for us by illustrator ! See our opening hours here: https://t.co/C8HYOTCgbk

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🎄🖼️Charles Rennie Mackintosh, ‘Printed Greetings Card for Mr and Mrs Bassett-Lowke’, c.1915. Bassett-Lowke was client at 78 Derngate, Northampton. The ships and trains refer to his model engineering business and fascination with travel.

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Book now for 'The Making of Alasdair Gray's Lanark', an evening event in the Hunterian Art Gallery dedicated to the work of renowned Scottish writer and artist. Get your tickets here and find out more: https://t.co/TztyIdlQvl

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Detail: “Chrysanthemum". Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1920.
Image: Hunterian

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Our fabulous free exhibition ‘Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A World Made on Paper’ is now open at the Hunterian Art Gallery ! 🤩 Don’t miss your chance to see original drawings for Lanark and other works by the Scottish writer and artist. Image courtesy .

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Motion Waves- Land, Sea & Air
Hunterian Museum, 4th June, 10-2pm, free

Calling all young explorers! Join the team & discover waves in the natural world. With crafts, activities & a trail

🌊https://t.co/3VmNIvQacm

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Study of a chicken skeleton in watercolour & ink, to get more comfortable with drawing bones🦴🐔

(specimen from the Hunterian collection)

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Don’t miss the free online talk about ‘Old Ways New Roads’ from The Hunterian and ’s Anne Dulau, Nigel Leask and John Bonehill! Part of the Spring Research Lunch series. Friday 18 March from 1-2pm. More info and tickets here: https://t.co/eTyCHzTxT0

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Last, one of the cool figures here was by Aaron Cole, one of the -affiliate medical illustrators. Demonstrates a recurrent complex basilar apex aneurysm with a WEB device, treated with Hunterian ligation

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This we’re featuring depictions of women currently on display in the Hunterian Art Gallery . Produced at the turn of the 20th century when society and women’s roles changed significantly, these works present the viewer with very different realities.

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Whistler was an enthusiastic collector of Japanese woodblock prints and this one by Hiroshige is titled ‘Clearing Weather at Shibaura’. See it as part of ‘Whistler: Art and Legacy’ at the Hunterian Art Gallery. Open today, 10am–5pm. Book free tickets at: https://t.co/PPuNkXbyiP

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Design for a four-poster bed. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1900.
Image: Hunterian

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Miniatures of the twelve Zodiac signs from the Hunterian Psalter, AD 1170, Glasgow University Library, UK. It derives its colloquial name, the "Hunterian Psalter", from having been part of the collection of 18th-century Scottish anatomist and book collector William Hunter.

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Now our first talk about a living artist, the incredible Duncan Shanks by curator Anne Dulau. His 120 sketchbooks are owned by The Hunterian Art Gallery and are beautiful and unique objects. Here is an image from one of them - Cir Mhor from Glen Rosa.

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In this work by Marcantonio Raimondi from The Hunterian , three goddesses, Juno, Venus and Minerva, compete for the golden apple in the hand of the Trojan prince Paris. In mythology, he awarded it to Venus, goddess of love, leading to the Trojan war.

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Our theme of literature, myths and legends continues with 'Judith' by Scottish artist David Donaldson. This work from The Hunterian was first exhibited in 1955 and reprises the story of Judith, which has inspired artists since the Renaissance.

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Detail: "Cuckoo Flower, Chiddingstone". Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1910.
Image: Hunterian

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