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Captain Cook’s Sat Nav
According to National Maritime Museum’s notes, the octant was the gadget that had empowered Captain Cook to locate the Polynesian islands off Australia. It was a gift to try to use it, to follow Cook. Our example had a mahogany frame and limb with a brass index arm and fittings including ivory plates on the […]
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Wax Painting Workshops
Adele Wright is a Paintings Conservator at Royal Museums Greenwich. I led interactive demonstrations on how to paint on wax, hoping to re-create Stubbs’ Dingo with the help of visitors to the Lewisham Shopping Centre. As part of the Traveller’s Tails Pop-up Museum’s workshops, the Conservation department of Royal Museums Greenwich has been running interactive […]
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The Hunterian’s Digital Trail is still going strong!
A digital trail was designed to accompany the exhibition The Kangaroo and The Moose at The Hunterian Art Gallery. The exhibition at Glasgow contextualised the Kangaroo painting in relation to the collections of William Hunter, the founder of The Hunterian, a pioneering obstetrician and passionate collector of the eighteenth century who commissioned George Stubss to […]
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Reconstructing Portrait of a Large Dog (Dingo)
As an intern at RMG for four months I was given an unusual project. Working in the conservation department, I was tasked with producing a replica of Stubbs’s Dingo, using a poorly understood and eccentric wax painting technique. In preparation I carefully studied the pantings acquired by the museum in 2013, Portrait of a Large […]