Cupid and Psyche

• Reference:GB 1694 NMC/0415
• Dates of Creation:1905
• Name of Creator:
  Hamilton, Margaret
• Physical Description:
  1

• Scope and Content

  This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Composition of embroidered fruit and flowers (as triptych). In original frame. Design made for Longcroft, Helensburgh.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Painter and embroiderer. Wife of the architect Alexander Nisbet Paterson, and sister of the Glasgow School painter James Whitelaw Hamilton in 1897. Her family home was Long Croft in Helensburgh.

• Acquisition Information

  Colonel Paterson, Helensburgh.

• Note

  Painter and embroiderer. Wife of the architect Alexander Nisbet Paterson, and sister of the Glasgow School painter James Whitelaw Hamilton in 1897. Her family home was Long Croft in Helensburgh.

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  Embroidery, coloured silks, gold and silver threads, beads.
  Dimensions: 1400 x 1850 x 155 mm

• Additional Information

  Published

• Subjects

  23rd May 2014

  Embroidery (visual works)

  Textiles