Barnard Castle, Co. Durham - The Bowes Museum - shiny finish postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham - shiny finish [may not come out in scan]
• Publisher:  the museum?
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Bowes Museum has a nationally renowned art collection and is situated in the town of Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, England.

The museum contains paintings by El Greco, Francisco Goya, Canaletto, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher, together with a sizable collection of decorative art, ceramics, textiles, tapestries, clocks and costumes, as well as older items from local history. The early works of French glassmaker Émile Gallé were commissioned by Bowes' wife Joséphine. A great attraction is the 18th century Silver Swan automaton, which periodically preens itself, looks round and appears to catch and swallow a fish.

The Bowes Museum was purpose-built as a public art gallery for John Bowes, the illegitimate son of John Bowes the 10th Earl of Strathmore, and Kinghorne, and his wife Joséphine Chevalier, Countess of Montalbo, who both died before it opened in 1892.

It was designed with the collaboration of two architects, the French architect Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson of Newcastle.^[1] The building, in a grand French style within landscaped gardens, was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as ""... big bold and incongruous, looking exactly like the town hall of a major provincial town in France. In scale it is just as gloriously inappropriate for the town to which it belongs (and to which it gives some international fame) as in style"".^[2]

The building was begun in 1869 and was reputed to have cost £100,000 (£7,120,000 as of 2013).^[3] Bowes and his wife left an endowment of £125,000 and a total of 800 paintings.^[4]

A major redevelopment of the Bowes Museum began in 2005. To date, improvements have been made to visitor facilities (shop, cafe, toilets); galleries (new Fashion & Textile gallery, Silver gallery and English Interiors gallery); and study/learning facilities. The three art galleries were up-dated on the second floor of the museum.

The museum hosts an internationally significant programme of exhibitions, recently featuring works by Monet, Raphael, Turner, Sisley, Gallé, William Morris, and Toulouse Lautrec.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=durham

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted