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View of Glasgow Green.

SK STE/15

Description View of Glasgow Green.

Date 1865

Collection Sketches by George Stewart

Catalogue Number SK STE/15

Category Print Room

Scope and Content Annotated pencil sketch inscribed on reverse 'Where the clothes lie in the foreground is about the spot on the Glasgow green where in 1765 on a Sunday afternoon when taking a walk ... James Watt made the discovery of the improvement on the steam emgine, the separate condenser. Being asked ... where the idea occurred to him he said it was on a Sunday afternoon between ... & Arns Well. See S.... Life of Watt. Nov (or Now) 1865 ....... '

Medium Pencil

Accession Number 1968/17

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/342056

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