After a number of false starts caused by pandemics and accidents, Mike and Dot Millward managed at last to hold a garden party in June. The event was only slightly marred by a torrential thunder storm which held off for almost an hour to allow members to see the garden. £200 was raised.
It was leaning against the store room wall where it had gathered dust for over 25 years. Vanessa Mitchell lifted a corner of the sheet that covered it to reveal the back of a rather large painting, obviously in poor condition.
The Mirror of the World is one of three books printed by William Caxton amongst the early printed books in the Hart Collection at Blackburn Museum. Caxton was remarkable. Born in Kent in c.1422 he became a prominent textile merchant in Bruges in present-day Belgium, and undertook diplomatic missions for Edward IV. It was probably Edward’s exile in 1470 during […]
9 July – 3 November 2019 at the Watts Gallery, Compton An exhibition dedicated to exploring the life and art of the Victorian Orientalist artist John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876). Just after the war, Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery received a remarkable wealth of items bequeathed by local men. In addition to the Hart and Lewis collections, a superb collection of […]
