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Margaret Salmon Jessica Ramm
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An Artists’ Guide to Orkney Frances Scott and Brittonie Fletcher
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Iman Tajik David Pollock
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Five untold stories of Scottish design Susan Mansfield
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Charlotte Prodger: BRIDGIT Kathryn Lloyd NOW: Monster Chetwynd, Henry Coombes, Moyna Flannigan, Betye Saar, Wael Shawky Neil Cooper Rosengarten Strange Foreign Bodies Susan Mansfield 369 Remembered – The Women David Pollock Embroidered Stories: Scottish Samplers Susan Mansfield
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FLEMING-WYFOLD COLLECTION
PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER AND THE FIRST SCOTTISH LANDSCAPE
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Icarus and the Gannets: Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the first Scottish Landscape Duncan Macmillan
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PLUS Margaret Salmon Charlotte Prodger An Artists’ Guide to Orkney Iman Tajik
Cover Image Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sailing Vessels, Armed ThreeMaster with Daedelus and Icarus in the Sky, engraved by Frans Huys, 1560-65 © Trustees of the British Museum
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