80a. Belfast (1) The Ulster Museum & Art Gallery

SCENES from NORTHERN IRELAND

The Ulster Museum is in a fine building in the grounds of Belfast's Botanic Gardens

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The statue of Lord Kelvin outside the entrance to the Belfast Ulster Museum and Art Gallery

The original main building of the Ulster Museum

Ulster Museum - skeleton of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens

Ancient fossils and skeletons in the Ulster Museum

The fossilised head of Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Ulster Museum

Crystals, atoms and use of X-rays to determine structure is all explained

Fossil of the bulldog fish in the Ulster Museum

 in the Ulster Museum a meteorite of nickel and iron, perhaps once part of the metal core of a planet

Diamonds!

There are great displays about the chemical elements of the Periodic Table in the Ulster Museum

A model of the periodic table with samples of the elements

The origin and geological composition of the Earth

Marine life and elements of the periodic table

Elements of progress - silicon, copper and iron

Precious metallic elements like gold and platinum - the elements of wealth and fashion

The Malone hoard of polished stone axes in the Ulster Museum

Bronze age spear heads and decorated shield

Replicas of Iron Age statues

The Egyptian mummy case of Tjesmutperet

A fragment of a hand from a giant Egyptian statue

A large gold torque in the Ulster Museum

The inauguration chair of the O'Neills of Clandeboye in the Ulster Museum

A display of World War I posters in the Ulster Museum - recruitment, do your duty, support the men etc.

St Christopher carrying the Christ Child, oil painting ~1630 by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

The modern art section on the top floor of the Ulster Museum and Art Gallery

The upper floors are devoted to art including sculptures, ceramics, /modern art' works and many paintings.

Belleek ceramics-pottery in the Ulster Museum

More Belleek busts and figureens

Some interesting pieces of contemporary art

 Francis Johnston, his Wife and two Nephews (1827), an oil painting by Martin Cregan (1788-1870) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Miss Theodosia Magill (1744-1817), an oil painting from 1765 by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

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 Miss Theodosia Magill (1744-1817), an oil painting from 1765 by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Imaginary View of Roman Ruins with figures, an oil painting by Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 A Landscape with Gentlemen Fishing and Shooting, an oil painting from ~1740 by Richard Carver (died 1754) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Portrait of his Son Sketching, an oil painting from ~1760 by Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 The Family of Thomas Bateson of Orangefield, County Down, an oil painting from 1762 by Strickland Lowry (~1737-1785) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Landscape with Carriage and Horses ~1781, an oil painting from William Ashford by ? (1746-1824) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Portrat of a Lady ~1785, an oil painting by Sir William Beechy (1753-1839) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Arthur, 1st Marquess of Donegall (1739-1799), an oil painting from ~1780 by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Harriet Anne, Coontess of Belfast, an oil painting from ~1822 by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

Three pieces of modern art: 'Crystal' by Kenneth Noland, 'Sands' by Helen Frankenthaler, 'Rosewall' by Peter Lanyon

Contemporary art section in the Ulster Museum art Gallery

 On Through silent Lands 1951, an oil painting by Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

More views of one of the contemporary art galleries of the ulster Museum

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 Under the Cherry Tree, an oil painting from 1929 by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

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 Night, Tangier 1911, an oil painting by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Tangier Bay - Rain 1910, an oil painting by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Daylight Raid from my Studio Window, 7 July 1917, an oil painting by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Tangier Bay - Sunshine 1920, an oil painting by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 The Green Coat 1926, an oil painting by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 Eileen in Primrose Yellow 1926, an oil painting by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

 The Lady in Black, Lady Juliet Duff, an oil painting from ? by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) in the Ulster Museum Art Gallery

Modern art !!!

Chronicle of Orange, 2007, oil on canvas painting by Elizabeth Magill (born 1959)

'UNEASY BEAUTY' an exhibition display of the drawings by John Henery Fuseli (1741-1825)

He used ink washes, watercolours in his drawings

Two Courtesans at a Window - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

Woman at a Dressing Table - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

Mrs Fuseli in a large Hat - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

Left: Two Women with fans walking in a Garden - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

Right: Mrs Fuseli in a Red Cap - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

Seated Woman with Fingrer on Mouth - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

Milton when a Boy, Instructed by his Mother - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

Studies of Three Coutesans with Extravagant Hairstyles - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

Study after a Roman Portrait Bust of a Lady - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

? - a drawing by John Henry Fuseli from the Ulster Museum Collection

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