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This sketchbook consists of 81 pages of sketches made by Charles Rennie Mackintosh during his trip to Italy in 1891 funded by his Greek Thomson travelling scholarship prize money. The subjects he sketched are mainly architectural, with the one he felt to be most impressive being labelled 'A Caution'. Each sketch is labelled with the name of the city or town in which it was sketched. In 1890 Mackintosh won the Alexander 'Greek' Thomson Travelling Scholarship with a design for a public hall, which enabled him to take an extensive tour abroad from February to July 1891. He left Glasgow for London on 21 March 1891, sailing from Tilbury on the Thames on 27 March and arriving in Naples on 5 April. He then visited Palermo in Sicily, Rome, Orvieto, Siena, Florence, Pisa, Pistoia, Bologna, Ravenna, Ferrara, Venice, Padua, and Vicenza, arriving in Verona on 10 June 1891. The Sketchbook contains drawings from the later part of Mackintosh's tour, from 10th June, with sketches, mostly of architectural and sculptural details, beginning with Verona. It covers Verona (11-14 June); Mantua (14 June); Cremona (14-15 June); Brescia (16 June); Bergamo (17 June); Lecco (18 June); Cadenabbia and Lake Como (19-25 June); Como (26-27 June); Milan (28 June-6 July); Pavia (7 July-?); Certosa di Pavia (probably several days around 12 July); Paris and Chateau d'Ecouen (late July?); Antwerp (late July? - briefly visited on his return journey). It also contains several pages of designs for the Glasgow Art Club (1892-3) and the Glasgow Herald Building (1893-5). The drawings themselves are almost all pencil sketches, some of which are now quite faint.

Sketches from travel in Paris and London.

Travel journal, including sketches, drawings, paintings and notes, mixed media collages, and photographs.

Sketchbook started in Paris, includes sketches of 'One Minute Sculptures' by Erwin Wurm. Also, landscape sketches of Wester Ross.

Octagonal shaped medal. Draped, nude female. Inscribed obverse: "Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes. Paris 1925". The GSA won medals for metalwork and needlework in this exhibition.

Art nouveau design. Female portrait (reverse). Inscribed Obverse: "Exposition Universelle Internationale 1900 Glasgow School of Art" Reverse: "Republique Francaise". In class four of this section the GSA was awarded a gold medal for special teaching of Fine Art.

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.

Tree of scrolling stylised branches with animals and birds. Original: Biscornet, c1300. Wrought iron. Original currently in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France.

Bears "Musée de Sculpture Comparée du Trocadero, Paris, 1910" maker's stamp.

Order wich combines features of the ionic and corinthian, first identified by Alberti (c1450). Bears illegible maker's stamp.

Probably from an arcitrave. Oval shapes with decorative leaves. Bears "Musée de Sculpture Comparée du Trocadero, Paris, 1910" maker's stamp. Annotated "352" (carved).

Soffit. Bears "Musée de Sculpture Comparée du Trocadero, Paris, 1910" maker's stamp.

Three leafed foliage. Bears a "Musée de Sculpture Comparée du Trocadero, Paris, 1910" maker's stamp. Annotated "37" and "351".

Base of columns with human mask. Of French Gothic style. Bears illegible maker's stamp (possibly that of "Commission Royale Belge Atelier du Moulage, Bruxelles").

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.

Symmetrical panel showing curling leaves. Original: Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France. Bears "Musée de Sculpture Comparée du Trocadero, Paris, 1910" maker's stamp. Annotated "3.88".

Bears "Musée de Sculpture Comparée du Trocadero, Paris, 1910" maker's stamp.

Plaster cast copies of sculptures from the church of Notre-Dame de Corbeil, Essonne, France. The original sculptures were previously displayed in the Musée des Monuments as King Clovis I of the Franks (465 - 511) and his wife Queen Clotilde (474 – 545). However, they are now housed in the Louvre where they are catalogued as possibly the Old Testament monarchs, King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

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 the Porte Royale, the West Portal was carved by 1150. The sculptures and reliefs were modelled on those in the triple west portal at St. Denis and at Chartres Cathedral.

Pilaster with relief ornamentation and skull. Original: Jean Juste, c1531. Marble. St-Denis, France.

Bambini are shown playing with musical instruments, foliage etc. Bears "Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs Atelier Moulage, Paris" maker's stamp. Annotated "286" and twice with "Isabella".

Plaster cast copies of sculptures from the church of Notre-Dame de Corbeil, Essonne, France. The original sculptures were previously displayed in the Musée des Monuments as King Clovis I of the Franks (465 - 511) and his wife Queen Clotilde (474 – 545). However, they are now housed in the Louvre where they are catalogued as possibly the Old Testament monarchs, King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.