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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The ‘Executive’ of Dundee, by Henry Harwood, 1821

Tags: Dundee, Edinburgh, shoemakers, tailors, Trades house, weavers

Matthew Hardie, violin maker in Edinburgh, 1822

Tags: clock maker, Edinburgh, joiners, London, patronage, wood

Dressmakers employed by Veitch of Peebles, ca.1890

Tags: apprentices, dressmakers, Edinburgh, milliners, Peebles, photographers, tourist industry

Phoebe Traquair, Self Portrait, ca. 1910

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

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

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

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

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

Glass Epergne, Holyrood Flint Glass Company, ca.1841

Tags: apprentices, Bohemia, Brass, ceramics, Edinburgh, engravers, exhibitions, fern pattern, glass, middle class, Queen Victoria, silver, tableware

Brass Candle Sconce, Alex Ritchie, ca. 1900

Tags: apprentices, aristocratic patronage, Arts and Crafts, Brass, Celtic revival, Edinburgh, England, factories, Glasgow, Highlands, Iona, jewellers, leather, silver, tourist industry, wood

Fire Irons, Thomas Hadden, ca. 1915

Tags: Arts and Crafts, Edinburgh, Fife, Lorimer, metal

Umbrella Stand, Carron Company, 1843

Tags: cast-iron, copyright and patenting, craft communities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, neoclassical, Robert Adam, Stirling

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