landscape – IMS Photography

Beachy Head

Ian Malpass-Scott — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:48:00 +0000

Beachy Head, East Sussex.

Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex, England. It is situated close to Eastbourne, immediately east of the Seven Sisters.

Beachy Head is located within the administrative area of Eastbourne Borough Council which owns the land, forming part of the Eastbourne Downland Estate. The cliff is the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, rising to 162 m (531 ft) above sea level. The peak allows views of the south east coast towards Dungeness in the east, and to the Isle of Wight in the west.

LB&SCR H2 class 4-4-2 steam locomotive number 424 (later B424, 2424, and 32424) was named Beachy Head after this landmark.

Image Details
Date: 2 July 2026
Camera body: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikkor AF-S DX 18-55mm ƒ3.5-5.6G ED
Focal Length: 55mm
Aperture: ƒ/6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/1,600s
ISO: 200
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

The Footbridge

Ian Malpass-Scott — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:29:00 +0000

The footbridge over the river at Cragside, Northumberland

Image Details
Date: 21 April 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/359s
ISO: 25
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

The Judgement of Paris

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:36:00 +0000

Provenance: bequeathed by the Founders, 1885

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Johann Georg Platzer (1704–1761) and Josef Orient (1677–1747)
Date: Unknown

Image Details
Date: 7 Feb 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/25s
ISO: 640
Licensing: Image of a Bowes Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:36:00 +0000

Young man in richly braided dress, with sword, and white linen ruff and cuffs.

Provenance: bequeathed by the Founders, 1885

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Material: Oil on panel
Artist: H. van Boss
Date: 1592

Landscape with Figures and a Château

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:36:00 +0000

Little is known about the artist Goris de Coxie, although he may have been a member of the Flemish family of artists called Coxie from the province of Antwerp in Belgium, who were active in the 16th and 17th centuries and painted landscapes and religious subjects.

Provenance: bequeathed by the Founders, 1885

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Goris de Coxie (active 1685–1693)
Date: 1693

Image Details
Date: 7 Feb 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 640
Licensing: Image of a Bowes Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Master Of All I Survey

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:19:00 +0000

A scarecrow stands against a background of the pit village, from Spains Field Farm, Beamish, Co. Durham, England

Image details
Date: 17 November 2024
Camera body: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikkor AF-S DX 18-55mm ƒ3.5-5.6G ED
Focal Length: 55mm
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/200s
ISO: 400
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Kilgarren Castle, Pembrokeshire

Ian Malpass-Scott — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:29:00 +0000

Turner visited Kilgarren Castle on his tour of south Wales in 1798. He painted a number of views of the Castle, exhibiting ‘Kilgarren Castle on the Twyvey, Hazy Sunrise previous to a Sultry Day’ at the Royal Academy in 1799. Lord Armstrong bought a painting of Kilgarren Castle in 1878 from the collection of Munro of Novar, an important patron of Turner. Armstrong’s Kilgarren Castle was exhibited as a Turner at the Guildhall in London in 1899 alongside another version of the composition, which the artist John MacWhirter, after seeing the two paintings together, regarded as the original. When the major paintings in Lord Armstrong’s collection were put up for sale at Christie’s in 1910, Kilgarren Castle was among them. It did not reach its reserve, however, and was not sold, remaining to this day in the private collection of the Armstrong family. By a happy coincidence, the National Trust was bequeathed the present version – the very painting MacWhirter believed to be the original – by Lady Mildred Fitzgerald, in 1970. It was displayed at Wordsworth House in Cumbria before being transferred to Cragside.

Oil painting on canvas, Kilgarren Castle, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA, (London 1775 – Chelsea 1851), 1798-99.

Provenance: Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1799 (305); probably in the collection of the painter William Delamotte (1775-1863); purchased in Oxford by Sir John Leicester, later Lord de Tabley (1762-1827), before 1808; his posthumous sale, Christie’s, 7 July 1827, lot 17, purchased by Butterworth; William Cave; Christie’s, 29 June 1854, lot 61, purchased by Wallis; anonymous sale, Foster’s, 3 February 1858, lot 106, bought in; Joseph Gillott’s sale, Christie’s, 27 April 1872, lot 305, purchased by H. L. Bischoffsheim (1829 – 1909); bequeathed by him to his daughter, Lady Fitzgerald, wife of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald; thence by descent; bequeathed to the National Trust by Lady Mildred Murray, Lady Fitzgerald (1878-1969) 1970; formerly displayed at Wordsworth House.

Text from the National Trust website

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Cragside, Rothbury, Northumberland
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (1775 – 1851)
Date: 1798-99

Image Details
Date: 20 June 2024
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/25s
ISO: 400
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.

‘After Chevy Chase’ (Battle of Otterburn 1388)

Ian Malpass-Scott — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:29:00 +0000

‘After Chevy Chase’ is based on a folk ballad about a battle between the Earl of Northumberland and the Scottish Earl of Douglas over an area of hunting land (or chase) in the Cheviot Hills. In Dicksee’s painting, the battle has been fought and a dead knight lies face-down, guarded by his faithful hounds. It is perhaps no coincidence that the dogs occupy a position of prominence, as the artist specialised in painting dogs, especially deerhounds like the one at the left of the painting.

Oil painting on canvas, ‘After Chevy Chase’ (Battle of Otterburn 1388) by Herbert Thomas Dicksee (London 1862 – London 1942), signed and dated, bottom left: Herbert Dicksee 1894 [almost effaced]. A moorland landscape, with a fallen warrior, possibly Earl Douglas, dead on the field of battle and his sorrowing dogs howling at his side. The title refers to a ballad relating an episode from the border wars between the Percys of Northumberland and the Douglas clan. At the Battle of Otterburn James Douglas is killed although the Scottish win and take Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur) hostage and were intially unaware of their leader’s death. ‘A more redoubted knight never perished by such a chance.’ (quote from English ballad)/ “O bury me by the braken-bush, Beneath the blooming brier; Let never living mortal ken That ere a kindly Scot lies here.” (quote from Scottish ballad) It was exhbited at the Royal Academy in 1894 (no. 276).

Provenance: Presented to the National Trust in 1977 by Colonel L. Gray-Cheape.

Marks and inscriptions: Bottom left: HERBERT DICKSEE 1894

Text from the National Trust website

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Cragside, Rothbury, Northumberland
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Herbert Dicksee (1862 – 1942)
Date: 1894

Gibraltar

Ian Malpass-Scott — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:29:00 +0000

Watercolour and bodycolour on paper, Gibraltar, by General Sir John Miller Adye (Sevenoaks 1819 – Rothbury 1900). A view of the Rock of Gibraltar from the opposite shore, with boats, figures and mules in the foreground.

Provenance: Armstrong collection. Transferred by the Treasury to The National Trust in 1977 via the National Land Fund, aided by 3rd Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1919 – 1987).

Marks and inscriptions: On the mount: “Gibraltar” / General Sir John Adye G. C. B.

Text from the National Trust website

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Cragside, Rothbury, Northumberland
Material: Watercolour on paper
Artist: General Sir John Miller Adye KCB GCB (1819 – 1900)
Date: 19th century

Image Details
Date: 20 June 2024
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 400
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Evening, Cattle Watering

Ian Malpass-Scott — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:29:00 +0000

Watercolour on paper, Evening, Cattle Watering, by John Frederick Tayler (Borehamwood 1802 – London 1889).

Provenance: Armstrong collection. Transferred by the Treasury to The National Trust in 1977 via the National Land Fund, aided by 3rd Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1919 – 1987).

Marks and inscriptions: On the mount: BORN 1802 / “Evening” / J. F. TAYLER, R.W.S. / DIED 1889

Text from the National Trust website

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Cragside, Rothbury, Northumberland
Material: Watercolour on paper
Artist: John Frederick Tayler (1802 – 1889)
Date: 19th century

Image Details
Date: 20 June 2024
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 320
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.