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Description: | inscr. in black ink on verso by Mackintosh "Miss Cranstons" Ingram St Glasgow / Panel "The May Queen" in coloured plaster inlaid with jewels and metals. / Designed and executed by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh / 120 Mains Street / Blythswood Square Glasgow." CRE MACKINTOSH, Margaret Macdonald; (English; 1864-1933) 'The May Queen' is a gesso panel by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street tea rooms. The May Queen is a symbol of youth, fertility and summer. She derives from the traditional May Day festivities which celebrated the coming of summer. On the facing wall Mackintosh had a gesso frieze to his design and execution, 'The Wassail' - see GLAHA 52858. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PHOTOGRAPH : ARCHIVAL : MAY QUEEN : GESSO PANEL : INGRAM STREET TEA ROOMS, GLASGOW : CRM ONLINE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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