Nasmyth
Britishnoun
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This week the painting went on public display for the first time, alongside the Nasmyth portrait which already belongs to the National Galleries of Scotland.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
While he uses the Nasmyth work as his template, his Burns is younger, fresher faced and more vivacious than the original.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
James Nasmyth, the British engineer and amateur astronomer, produced what looked like impressive photographs of the Moon back in 1874.
From Nature ● Apr. 24, 2018
“That certainly gave me a level of intuition about it that I otherwise would not have had,” Nasmyth says.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 3, 2017
Suddenly Laura became conscious that Nasmyth, who held up a little box from which trailed a couple of wires, was speaking.
From The Greater Power by W. Herbert Dunton
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