A London Salmagundi

The passenger liner 'Aquitania' (1914) under construction by John Brown & Co Ltd at Clydebank.

(via Royal Museums Greenwich)

Vase, variegated chalcedony glass, designed by Christopher Dresser, made at James Couper & Sons. Glasgow (Scotland); ca. 1890

(via Vase | Dresser, Christopher | V&A Explore The Collections)

John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee. David Paton, about 1670.

“The truth of one of this military commander's nicknames, 'Bonnie Dundee', can be seen in this delicate image of a very handsome young man. His earned his other nickname, 'Bloody Clavers', for his persecution of Scottish presbyterians, whose form of worship was at that time forbidden by the government. When William of Orange invaded England in 1688, he supported James VII and II. After James fled to France, Dundee raised the Highland clans to fight for the Jacobite cause. His army won a resounding victory at the Battle of Killiecrankie on 27 July 1689, but Dundee was killed. Having lost their charismatic leader, his men disbanded and returned home.” via the National Galleries of Scotland.

Kenneth Sutherland, 3rd Lord Duffus. Richard Waitt, about 1712.

“Lord Duffus was a Scottish aristocrat who supported the Act of Union in 1707. However, during the 1715 Jacobite Rising he joined the rebels who wanted to restore the exiled Stuart dynasty. The Rising failed and Duffus’s estates were forfeited. He fled to the continent, but was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Released in 1717, he later served in the Russian Imperial Navy where he rose to the rank of admiral.” via the National Galleries of Scotland.

Plaster model of the surface z = 3a(x2 - y2) - (x3 + y3). Alexander Crum Brown was both a mathematician and chemist. He was a prolific maker of mathematical models. In this example, every section made by a plane passing through the blue line forms an ellipse

(via Plaster Surface Model by Alexander Crum Brown, c 1900. | Science Museum Group Collection)

Sir James Macdonald and Sir Alexander Macdonald. William Mosman, ca. 1749 (via National Galleries of Scotland)