For most, New Year in Edinburgh conjures images of the city’s raucous Hogmanay street party – but since 1901, the first day of January has also been marked in a rather gentler manner. The collector Henry Vaughan bequeathed 38 watercolours by J.M.W. Turner to the Scottish National Gallery in 1900, on condition – stipulated with both Victorian civic-mindedness and an awareness of the aversion of
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