This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Self-portrait, or portrait of artist's brother Henry Y. Alison.
A pencil sketch of a young man working in the sculpture workshop. A hand written label on the reverse reads, 'John Murdoch sketch by himself at Glasgow School of Art when a student.' In another hand, the dates 1824 - 1954 have been added. On the backing sheet, another note reads,' John Murdoch (1824 - 1854) Self portrait at Glasgow School of Art when Rector.'
Black and white photograph of a bronze male head sculpture sitting on a box. Male figure has a chin strap beard and prominent nose. Says ""Jack Dalziel" - by Helen Biggar - c. 1939" written in blue pen with "92B" circled verso. Jack Dalziel (real name "John") was likely a friend of Helen's.
A4 sized paper scan of a black and white blown up image of a lady in white patterned headscarf. Verso " Mrs Kopaloff - 88 yrs - Stepney, East London / 1977 / A reduced cope of the original, part of our / exhibition of East End Faces, held at / Toynbee Hall - The Universities' Settlement in East London." Per DC 101/3/1, Mrs Kopaloff was sitting at her kitchen table in her pre-fabricated home shelling peas. She had escaped from Jewish persecution in Lithuania and found refuge in the United Kingdom; Veronica Matthew knew her well.
Portrait of Sadie McLellan from the chest up with her head tilted to her left. Hair is in an up do and she wears an embroidered patterned traditional ethnic top with puffy white long sleeves and a metal button up wool waistcoat over top. "Sadie McLellan / about 1938" verso.
Black and white portrait photograph. Believed to be Sydney d'Horne Shepherd, wearing a white dress shirt, light coloured tie, and darker coloured suit jacket. A stamp reads "Howard Coster, / Photographer of Men, / 9, Sackville St., Piccadilly, W.1. / Regent 4561.", with an "A" drawn in pencil below it verso.
Includes a smiling Valerie in her home in Florida with cast sculptures, paintings, framed pictures, and a living room behind her; "Val Ambrose / Florida, 2010" verso. Has small white border and is glossy.
Includes a black and white glossy photograph of a smiling Veronica Matthew in a white dress made with a printed shawl by Valerie Wilson (Bloomfield-Ambrose) in 1956 or 1957. "Weekly Scotsman. Edinburgh." written at bottom on the white border. Verso "Veronica Matthew / G.S.A. Fashion Show, 1956 or 1957 / The white dress belonged to Valerie Wilson, (now V. Ambrose), + made by her. The stole was a screen printed textile made by me in greens, red + a kind of Kakhi colour. The headdress was red knitting pins stuck into my bun. I was a student of Robert Stewart's / Printed Textiles Dept. + Kathleen Whyte's Modern Embroidery / 10 Aug 2016." Verso also includes a stamp that indicates the copyright and reference number for printing purposes.
Original: Statue of a young nude male found at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli c1730. Antinous (November 29, 111-October 30, 130) was a member of the entourage of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, to whom he was beloved. Original currently in the collection of The Capitoline, Rome, Italy.
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: This cast is of a 1st - 2nd century AD Roman marble copy of the Praxiteles original (Bronze, attributed by Pliny). It shows a nude adolescent male about to catch a lizard climbing up a tree. The left arm, the right hand and the lizard's head are modern restorations. It could indirectly refer to Apollo's fight against the serpent Python or, if the lizard is an attribute of the god, it could show Apollo in his purifying function, as a destroyer of plagues. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Brickwork sculpture of Persian Royal bodyguard carrying quiver on back. Original: Persian glazed frieze from the Palace of Darius I in Susa, 521-486 BC. Original currently in the collection of the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany.
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: Statue of Augustus Caesar which was discovered on April 20, 1863, in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (23 Sep 63BC-19 Aug AD14) was the first ruler of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from January 27BC until his death in AD14. Original currently in the collection of the Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican, Rome, Italy.
Original: Also known as: Discobolus, Fighting Gladiator, Hector, Heros Combattant, Borghese Gladiator. Particularly admired for its truthful rendering of anatomy. A Hellenistic sculpture actually portraying a swordsman, created at Ephesus about 100 BCE. Listed in first catalogue of casts as Greek, in the Louvre and was bought from Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France. Photographed in GSA in 1915.
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: Also known as: Discobolus, Fighting Gladiator, Hector, Heros Combattant, Borghese Gladiator. Particularly admired for its truthful rendering of anatomy. A Hellenistic sculpture actually portraying a swordsman, created at Ephesus about 100 BCE. Listed in first catalogue of casts as Greek, in the Louvre and was bought from Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: From the group of Niobe and her children at the Galleria Uffizi, Florence, Italy, originally found in Rome in 1583. Niobe boasted about her 14 children (the Niobids) to Leto, mother to only Artemis and Apollo. Leto demanded her children take revenge upon Niobe's hubris. Using arrows, Artemis killed Niobe's daughters and Apollo killed Niobe's sons. This cast shows one son cowering from the onslaught.
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: Canephora was an honorific office given to unmarried young women in ancient Greece which involved the privilege of leading the procession to sacrifice at festivals.Translated as: "Basket Bearer". Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: The life-size bronze statue of a chariot driver was found in 1896 at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi and is also known as Heniokhos, the rein-holder. The statue was erected at Delphi in 474BC, to commemorate the victory of a chariot team in the Pythean Games, which were held at Delphi every four years in honor of Pythean Apollo. Original currently in the collection of the Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece.
Chimera in relief, architectural fragment, probably part of larger scene or collection of panels due to lack of formal border. Annotated ""Chimere", "Hove" (or similar), and "PH-1"(in red).
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: The Discobolus of Myron is a famous lost Greek bronze original that was completed towards the end of the Severe period, c460-450 BC. It is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, such as the first to be recovered, the Palombara Discobolus, or smaller scaled versions in bronze. Bought from Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.
Original: Also known as: Venere nel bagno, Venere nella conchiglia. Likely to be a Roman adaptation of Doidalses' Crouching Aphrodite (a lost Greek original from the 3rd century BC). Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: Figures from the east pediment of the Parthenon depicting the birth of Athena. The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, about 438-432 BC. The two figures are thought to be Dione cradling her daughter Aphrodite; they are remarkable for their naturalistic rendering of anatomy blended with a harmonious representation of complex draperies. However, another suggestion is that the two figures on the right are the personification of the Sea (Thalassa) in the lap of the Earth (Gaia). Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Original: Portal figures from Chartres Cathedral. The central tympanum illustrates the Apocalypse with a central Christ surrounded by twenty-four Elders.
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Original: Portal figures from Chartres Cathedral. The central tympanum illustrates the Apocalypse with a central Christ surrounded by twenty-four Elders.
Original: 716-713BC. Neo-Assyrian Palace of Sargon II, Iraq. Currently in the collection of The Louvre, Paris, France. Beard "Musées Nationaux Moulage, Paris" maker's stamp.
