October 1863: Joseph Noel Paton and The Glasgow Art Union – “The evils of slavery and the slave-trade”
A short paragraph from The Scotsman is on page two of The Cumberland & Westmorland Advertiser;
Penrith & Lake District Chronicle (Cumberland and Westmorland Advertiser, and Penrith Literary Chronicle,
in The British Newspaper Archive), on Tuesday the 27th of October, 1863, and reads:
“The evils of slavery and the slave-trade have been powerfully set forth by Mr. Noel Paton in a
series of five designs for the Glasgow Art Union. We understand Mr. Paton is about to leave
Edinburgh for some time, to execute for Her Majesty, at Windsor, a picture in memoriam of the
late lamented Prince Consort.”
The British Newspaper Archive.
George Fairfull-Smith, September 2024.