Four silk pictures in one frame, with the title, 'A Present from the International Exhibition, Edinburgh 1886'. The mount contains the Edinburgh City Coat of Arms at the bottom, and individual silks titled 'The Exhibition Buildings', untitled 'Netherbow Port', and titled 'The Band Stand')

A Present from the International Exhibition,
Edinburgh 1886

(comprising 'Exhibition Building' , 'Netherbow Port' , 'The Band Stand' and 'City of Edinburgh 1886 & City Arms' at bottom )

Reference Number:- Godden Number:- Grant Catalogue Number:-
gt 24 not recorded unknown
 
Words:
 
left hand silk panel
Woven on Silk:-
central silk panel
 
right hand silk panel
 
 
 
THE EXHIBITION BUILDING
[un-named
The Netherbow Port]
 
 
City of
EDINBURGH
1886
 
[image of City Arms]  
 
 
 
THE BAND STAND

Printed on the card mount:-

 
A Present
 
International Exhibition,
 
WOVEN IN
 
  
from the
 
Edinburgh, 1886.
 
PURE SILK
 
  
W. H. GRANT, MANUFACTURER, FOLESHILL, COVENTRY.
Size:
Card-mount:
cm deep by cm wide

each individual silk:

The Exhibition Building:
cm high by cm wide
Netherbow Port:
cm high by cm wide
Edinburgh City Coat of Arms:
cm high by cm wide
The Band Stand:
cm high by cm wide
Comments:

by Geoffrey Godden:
Godden does not record this title.

Other comments:
Godden discusses at great length a Grant multi-silk picture with printed title A PRESENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, EDINBURGH 1886 which comprises the Coat of Arms and five larger silk views, being " The Exhibition Buildings", " The Band Stand", "The Old Tolbooth", untitled "The Old Edinburgh Street", and "The Nertherbow Port".
He also discusses a variant of this silk, with the printed title, OLD EDINBURGH VIEWS, which contains only three of the five silks.
Godden however does not mention the printed title above.

The same printed title is recorded multiple times on this site, although the actual silks are different in each record.

The individual silks were also issued by Grant as individually mounted pictures, although unlike the versions above, the individual silks in general do not have the woven title - only printed on the card matt.


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