Details
- Object type
etching
- Title
Sugar Sample Room, Glasgow
- Artist/Maker
- Place Associated
Scotland, Glasgow, No 7 High Street, sugar sample room (place depicted)
- Date
1891
- Materials
etching on paper
- Dimensions
unframed: 154 mm x 203 mm
- Description
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Etching, signed proof, entitled 'Sugar Sample Room, Glasgow', by Sir David Young Cameron (1865–1945), 1891. Glasgow in the 1700s was famous for its trade with the Americas. As well as tobacco, sugar was a major source of wealth, both products grown and harvested under harsh conditions by enslaved people. Just as there were ‘tobacco lords’, Glasgow also had ‘sugar princes’. This Sugar Sample Room was built for them to check cargoes and strike deals to make them even more wealthy. The building’s grandeur represented their collective wealth, political power and social status.
- Credit Line/Donor
Presented by Thomas Francis Nicholas Donald in memory of his great grandparents, Colin Dunlop Donald, writer in Glasgow (1848-1895) and Ellen Mary Jane Donald, nee Brown (1847-1882)
- ID Number
PR.2004.5.7
- Location
Kelvingrove Glasgow's Great Exhibitions