Watercolour painting of Stromness from the Brae of Clouston.
ID: A657
Halkett cloth boat owned by Dr John Rae. Layers of cotton fabric and rubber, copper alloy air valves, canvas fender filled with cork.
ID: A658
Portrait of Dr John Rae (1813 - 1893). Oil on canvas, Portrait inset into an oval shows Rae in old age. Painted by Joseph Sydney Willlis Hodges (1888 - 1900)
ID: A659
Watercolour of the trading schooner 'Maggie' of Stromness, owned by J A Shearer and Son.
ID: A660
Traditionally build vernacular strawbacked chair with unusual carved heart shaped finials at the top uprights of the chair and the arms and supporting stiles are ornamentally carved.
ID: A661
Swahili kit cha enzi or a 'Chair of Power' probably made in Zanzibar or the east coast of Africa during the 19th century.
ID: A662
