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Print. Titled The Sapient Septemviri, the print depicts a row of scholars linking arms while another scholar speaks from a podium. The scholars are mostly dressed in black gowns with square caps, but some have an absurd appearance. One is depicted as a skeleton with a scythe, another wears all tartan and wields a polearm, and another has a large conical hat with an orb and cross on top.
Engraving, caricature portrait of King's College Staff in various guises (minister, death, pope, highlander, and 4 in academic robes) standing on tiled floor with the steeples of King's College and St Machar's behind (at the time of a proposed union…
Print. A winding street of terraced houses with some pedestrians. The focus is a house with three turret like structures up the sides and overhanging the street.
Etching of a house with turrets. Monogram 'R' top right - for George Reid (1841-1913).
Inscription: Top right: R
Inscription: Top right: R
Print of the Aberdeen weigh house. A long building with a gable roof, small dormers, square windows, three simple wooden doors leading on to a balcony accessible by a staircase on the outside, and two large arched wooden doors on the lower level.
Black and white print of the Weigh House.
Inscription: The Weigh House
Inscription: The Weigh House
Print of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen. A print of the front of a cathedral with a large arched doorway, three large slightly pointed arch shaped windows with tracery, four decorative towers, crenelated roof lines and a cross at the peak of the central roof.
Engraving of St. Andrew's Cathedral as designed by Archibald Simpson 1822.
Print of Marischal College, Aberdeen. Print of a large building, viewed from an archway looking into the courtyard of the building. It has a large square central tower from which wings with regular gothic windows and archways project sideways, then toward the viewer, then sideways again. At the corners are smaller octagonal towers with pointed domes. Gowned students wander the courtyard and stand under the arch along with a woman and child with umbrellas.
Black and white lithograph of Marischal College, the quadrangle viewed through the archway on Broad Street, before the addition of the Mitchell Tower. Two female figures with parasols on left, capped and gowned figures in groups, walking, talking.…
Prince George painting
1/2 portrait of Prince George of Denmark, in oval surround, facing, wearing armour and red robe trimmed with ermine, green sash over left shoulder, white scarf at throat, shoulder length grey hair and short clipped moustache. Knights notes: ' 5th…