000-100-102-750-C
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Horizontal sundial
This slate horizontal sundial was made for a Glasgow location in 1845 by Richard Melville, a travelling Ulster dial-maker.
The dial has eight subsidiary dials with brass gnomons showing local time at other locations around the world.
The 1840s was a period when there was much activity in central Scotland in garden landscaping and house building and alteration. It seems that Melville's dials found a ready market there. However, this particular dial has come from an unknown location.
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000-100-102-750-C |
| Image Rights Holder: |
National Museums Scotland |
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0098: National Museums Scotland
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| Ref: |
National Museums Scotland T.1979.103 |
| Date: |
1845
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| Material: |
Slate
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| What: |
Sundial, horizontal
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| Who: |
Richard Melville, Glasgow (Maker)
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| Where: |
Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow
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| Description: |
Horizontal sundial by Richard Melville in 1845
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| References: |
- Clarke, T.N., Morrison-Low, A.D. & Simpson, A.D.C., Brass & glass scientific instrument making workshops in Scotland as illustrated by instruments from the Arthur Frank Collection at the Royal Museum of Scotland. Edinburgh: NMS, 1989, pp 210-5
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