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CollectionABDUA University of Aberdeen, Human Culture Collection
Object NamePainting (Loch Awe)
Picture
Landscape
Object NumberABDUA:31084
Other Numberx
Other Number TypeOld number
Brief DescriptionLandscape painting of the area around Loch Awe. A dirt track leads us into the picture across countryside to a ruined castle with huge hills in the background. There is also a puff of smoke indicating a lone cottage in the distance
Content DescriptionLoch Awe
DimensionsImage h: 380 mm; w: 660 mm
MaterialsOil on canvas
ConditionGood
TechniquePainting
MakerMcCulloch, Horatio, RSA
Place KeyEurope, Scotland, Loch Awe
Object History NoteThe object was included in the 'Rebels with a Cause' exhibition shown initially at Holyrood (Scottish Parliament), Oct 2010 - Jan 2011, then later at the New Library, University of Aberdeen, Nov 2011- Mar 2012 (opening exhibition). The exhibition featured items from Marischal Museum and Special Collections. It was also included in Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland 26 June to 10 November 2019- National Museum of Scotland.
Inscription ContentSigned
Publication NoteThe Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF), 'Oil Paintings in Public Ownership - Aberdeen', 2013. LEMUR Database
Caption"Horatio McCulloch (1805-67) was the leading Scottish Romantic landscape painter. Trained in Glasgow under John Knox, McCulloch was a central figure in the dissemination of the visual landscape of Highlandism. His landscapes frequently contain ruins, desolate moorland and mountains."

Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
Aquisition SourceKeith, Lowella
Aquisition Date11/12/1997
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