Financial boost to help protect Bowes Museum
THE Bowes Museum has received a financial boost from the Heritage Stimulus Fund to carry out a building survey during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Grant to protect museum building, jobs and access to culture post-Covid
The Bowes Museum, with a covering of snow last month, will undergo a full building survey Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT A MUSEUM will undergo a detailed survey to find out what work is needed to protect the Grade I listed building and its world famous collections. The Bowes Museum has been awarded £20,000 from the Heritage Stimulus Fund to undertake a full condition survey in order to develop a five-year maintenance plan and start a fundraising campaign to carry out any necessary work. The grants are designed to protect heritage sites and ensure that jobs and access to culture and heritage ...
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A tale of two portraits which caught the eye of John Bowes
28 Feb 2021 SINT AND SINNER: Above, St Jerome in the Wilderness, by Andrea Solario In the latest of her regular columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer LONG before he met Joséphine, John Bowes was buying paintings. In 1830, aged 19, he made a brief Grand Tour of the continent and acquired his first painting, the Temptation of St Anthony. By 1844 he had bought 57 artworks, ranging from Italian pre-Renaissance to Dutch 17th century, as well as some 15th century art. One of his purchases of 1841, and displayed in the re...
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Schools gear up for gradual return of students
With the number of new COVID cases ebbing around Yolo County, the Davis school board discussed several aspects…
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No such thing as Streetlam Castle – despite what the map says
Geoff Solomon's 1803 map showing the "cartographer's folly" of Streetlam castle between Danby Wiske and the Cowtons GEOFF SOLOMON in Danby Wiske, near Northallerton, was interested to see that the infamous John Bowes lived at Streatlam Castle because he has an 1803 map of his neck of the woods in which there is a Streetlam Castle marked. There is indeed a hamlet called Streetlam near Danby Wiske, but there has never been a castle there. The map is drawn by the noted cartographer John Cary, the pre-eminent map-maker of his generation who was renowned for his accuracy. So how did he come ...
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