Artisans and Craft Production in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

A University of Edinburgh online exhibition about Scottish artisans, their work and working lives between 1780 and 1914.

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Interior of the Willow Tea Room, Glasgow, 1903

Tags: architects, Arts and Crafts, Celtic revival, design schools, exhibitions, Glasgow, London, women craftworkers, wrought iron

Doorpiece, 64 Queen Street, New Town, Edinburgh, 1790

Tags: apprentices, architects, Brass, Carron, Edinburgh, Falkirk, granite, iron, neoclassical, Robert Adam, stone carving

Portrait of Hugh Miller, Geologist, Writer and Stonemason ca. 1845

Tags: apprentices, cart wright, Edinburgh, Highlands, masons, shoemakers, stone carving, Stonemason

Workmen at Balnagown Castle, 1880s

Tags: builders, carpenters, Highlands, photographers, slaters, Tain

Alice Groom of Doulton & Co. at the Glasgow Exhibition, 1888

Tags: design, exhibitions, Glasgow, London, pottery, school of art, tailors, tourist industry

Karel Nekola (ca.1857-1915), Griselda Hill Pottery, ca. 2009

Tags: apprentices, design, Fife, pottery, Wemyss Ware

James Tassie, Sculptor and Gem Engraver, ca. 1781

Tags: Dublin, fashionable consumption, Glasgow, glass, jewellers, London

Phoebe Traquair, Self Portrait, ca. 1910

Tags: Arts and Crafts, decorators, Dublin, Edinburgh, embroiderers, jewellers, Lorimer

Tommy Ross, Plumber, Haddington, ca. 1885

Tags: exhibitions, Haddington, metal, new industries, photographers, plumbers

Robert Davidson, Blacksmith and his Daughter, Roxburghshire ca. 1897

Tags: amateur, blacksmiths, dressmakers, Hawick, joiners, photographers, Roxburghshire

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