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Description: | Scene showing a couple standing at the end of a track which leads to a loch. There are two large trees in the right hand side of the foreground. This is a Claudian style classical landscape with a ruin on a sun lit hill top in the distance. This image is glazed.
"Giles (1801-1870) a native of Aberdeen, trained in London and Paris and travelled in Italy. Returned to Aberdeen in 1826. Founder of Aberdeen Artists Society. Usually a painter of Classical and Scottish landscapes, he also painted and exhibited portraits. This Italianate work with classical ruins dates from after his return to Scotland and is one of many such Romanticised reworkings of his European tour."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541
Acquisition source: Keith, Lowella | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1838 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Giles, James RSA (?) | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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