Smith Art Gallery & Museum | Details | Springbank House Stained Glass

Sidebar content	Main content
Actions Displays	Springbank House Stained Glass Remove from selection Add to selection Reproduction Download mediaDownload as zip file Object number20155.04 TitleSpringbank House Stained Glass DescriptionThis stunning stained-glass window once lit the grand staircase of Springbank House in Viewforth, Stirling. It was installed there when the house was built in the 1880s and preserved when it was demolished in 1974. The four large panels illustrating romantic Scottish landscapes are in fact much older. We believe they were painted in around 1837, in the studio of Messrs Cooper of Edinburgh, who specialised in painting famous works of art on glass. These beautifully detailed panels are inspired by the life and works of Sir Walter Scott. The author of the Waverley novels, he wrote some of the most popular books in Europe throughout the 19th century. The two pictures at the heart of this window illustrate his final resting place at Dryburgh Abbey, and his beloved home, Abbotsford House. They are flanked by two idyllic Highland scenes, featuring the ‘land of the mountain and the flood’, lines taken from another of Scott’s works, The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Sir Walter Scott’s writing appealed to the elite’s romantic view of Scotland in the early decades of the 19th century. A visit to Edinburgh by King George IV in 1822 (the first monarch to visit since Charles II) saw the city awash with patriotism, a veritable sea of tartan. Queen Victoria’s purchase of Balmoral Castle and love of the Highlands cemented Scotland’s status as a romantic country, land of the Celts. Stirling and the surrounding area were especially popular with well-heeled tourists, not least because Scott had set another of his major poems, The Lady of the Lake, at Loch Katrine in the Trossachs. DescriptionStained Glass Windows from Springbank House at Viewforth, built in 1880 and demolished 1974. Glass was in storage in Archives department in the Old Hign School and at The Craigs Unit until its transfer in 2001. See notes. DescriptionStained Glass window from Springbank House but originally made in 1837 by 'The Messrs Cooper' at 4 Princes Street, Edinburgh. Identified from an article in the Scotsman of 30th December 1837- The Fine Arts'. see notes for content. the images are of Dryburgh, Abbotsford and Loch Katrine. Production placeStirling ? Production date 1837 Object nameWindow, stained glass window Building, Glass MaterialGlass TechniqueManufactured

Reproduction

Download mediaDownload as zip file

Object number20155.04

TitleSpringbank House Stained Glass

DescriptionThis stunning stained-glass window once lit the grand staircase of Springbank House in Viewforth, Stirling. It was installed there when the house was built in the 1880s and preserved when it was demolished in 1974. The four large panels illustrating romantic Scottish landscapes are in fact much older. We believe they were painted in around 1837, in the studio of Messrs Cooper of Edinburgh, who specialised in painting famous works of art on glass. These beautifully detailed panels are inspired by the life and works of Sir Walter Scott. The author of the Waverley novels, he wrote some of the most popular books in Europe throughout the 19th century. The two pictures at the heart of this window illustrate his final resting place at Dryburgh Abbey, and his beloved home, Abbotsford House. They are flanked by two idyllic Highland scenes, featuring the ‘land of the mountain and the flood’, lines taken from another of Scott’s works, The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Sir Walter Scott’s writing appealed to the elite’s romantic view of Scotland in the early decades of the 19th century. A visit to Edinburgh by King George IV in 1822 (the first monarch to visit since Charles II) saw the city awash with patriotism, a veritable sea of tartan. Queen Victoria’s purchase of Balmoral Castle and love of the Highlands cemented Scotland’s status as a romantic country, land of the Celts. Stirling and the surrounding area were especially popular with well-heeled tourists, not least because Scott had set another of his major poems, The Lady of the Lake, at Loch Katrine in the Trossachs.

DescriptionStained Glass Windows from Springbank House at Viewforth, built in 1880 and demolished 1974. Glass was in storage in Archives department in the Old Hign School and at The Craigs Unit until its transfer in 2001. See notes.

DescriptionStained Glass window from Springbank House but originally made in 1837 by 'The Messrs Cooper' at 4 Princes Street, Edinburgh. Identified from an article in the Scotsman of 30th December 1837- The Fine Arts'. see notes for content. the images are of Dryburgh, Abbotsford and Loch Katrine.

Production placeStirling ?

Production date 1837

Object nameWindow, stained glass window

Building, Glass

MaterialGlass

TechniqueManufactured