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processional.cross
One of several ceremonial brass crosses, flat, openwork. Church furniture.
Proceedings of the Burgesses of Aberdeen
Descriptions of Aberdeen council business almost fifty years before the 1st Reform Act was passed.
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