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16 Sept 2020

Ask a curator!

Written by The curators
Cropped image of a painting showing a lady in period clothes gazing at a child who is resting against her shoulder.
Janet Alice Lorimer with child (1890) by John Henry Lorimer
For #AskACuratorDay 2020, we asked our five curators to tell us all about their favourite object in the National Trust for Scotland’s collections. Which is your favourite?
Expand image 1: Black and white image in a photo album, showing a mass of flowers covering a grave. Expand image 2: Painting of a lady in a long dress sitting on a chair. She is gazing at a small child who is resting against her shoulder. Expand image 3: A teacup ornately decorated with colourful flowers and a gold trellis pattern. Expand image 4: An ornate crystal candle holder, with long crystal droplets attached all the way round. Expand image 5: Watercolour of an ornate ceiling design, with the words‘Design for a ceiling for the salon at Cullean Castle for the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Cassillis’ at the top.

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