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The Mysterious Garden

From about 1900 Macdonald began to produce larger, independent watercolours alongside her craftwork. Here, a figure is seemingly asleep and may be dreaming, while above her stands a row of eight heads or masks which are perhaps part of her dream. The subject may have been inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, which was performed in Glasgow in autumn 1910. Also, stylistically it o…

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Creator

  • Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Subject

  • Symbolism
  • Glasgow style
  • Symbolist

Type of item

  • Drawing
  • drawings (visual works)

Medium

  • Watercolour and ink over pencil on vellum, laid on board
  • Aquarell
  • vellum (paper)

Creator

  • Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Subject

  • Symbolism
  • Glasgow style
  • Symbolist

Type of item

  • Drawing
  • drawings (visual works)

Medium

  • Watercolour and ink over pencil on vellum, laid on board
  • Aquarell
  • vellum (paper)

Providing institution

  • National Galleries Scotland

Aggregator

  • Europeana 280

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

User generated content

  • false

Creation date

  • 1911
  • 1911

Current location

  • Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Provenance

  • Purchased from help from the Art Fund 2011

Identifier

  • UK_280_030

Extent

  • 45.10 x 47.70 cm

Language

  • English

Year

  • 1911

Providing country

  • United Kingdom

Collection name

  • 2063624_EU_280_UK

Timestamp created

  • 2019-09-10T19:17:54.593Z

Timestamp updated

  • 2019-09-10T19:17:54.593Z