Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Collection of cast reliefs (Version 13)

NMC/1619/v13
Part
19th century

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Collection of cast reliefs (Version 18)

NMC/1619/v18
Part
19th century

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Collection of cast reliefs

NMC/1619
Item
19th century

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Collection of brown stained round plaster cast reliefs. Mostly depicting portrait busts. Kept in eight shallow wooden drawers. Themes include: religious figures, military figures, ancient Greek and Roman figures, royalty, various historical figures, and commemorative scenes. Some include stamped titles on front, some scratched on back, some without any identification. Also includes paper timeline of ancient Roman rulers.

*Not available / given

Bust of Niccolo da Uzzano

GST/2
Item
Late 19th century-early 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster bust after a terracotta bust of Niccolo da Abruzzo in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, believed to be by Donatello.

D Brucciani & Co

Anatomical bust

GST/10
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster anatomical portrait showing muscle groups of the face and neck.

J Giusti & Co

Small bust after 'Young Octavian'

GST/25
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Small plaster bust, likely after the 'Young Octavian' portrait of the emperor Augustus in the Vatican Museums.

J Giusti & Co

Gelatine mould of Greek portrait

GST/11
Item
Mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Mould made of gelatine used to produce plaster copies of a Greek portrait.

J Giusti & Co

Sainte Fortunade reliquary bust

GST/12
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster reproduction of reliquary bust from the church of Saint Martial in Correze, France.

J Giusti & Co

Small queen

GST/23
Item
Early 20th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

J Giusti & Co

Bust of 'shepherd'

GST/28
Item
Early 20th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster bust of a shepherd.

J Giusti & Co

Bust of 'brontolone'

GST/1
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster bust of 'brontolone' (grumpy old man) after Luca della Robbia.

J Giusti & Co

Bust of boy in armour

GST/26
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster bust of a boy wearing an ornamented breastplate.

J Giusti & Co

Bust of young man in armour

GST/27
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster bust of a young man in armour after a terracotta original from the 15th century sculpted by Antonio Pollaiuolo and held in the Bargello Museum, Florence.

J Giusti & Co

Bust of infant

GST/29
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster reproduction of an unidentified bust of an infant.

J Giusti & Co

Bust of Girolamo Benivieni

GST/4
Item
Late 19th century-early 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster bust after a terracotta bust of Girolamo Benivieni executed in 1863 by Giovani Bastianini in the collections of the Louvre, Paris. However, significant differences between the plaster bust by J Giusti & Co and the original bust by Bastianini, particularly the shape of the hat, suggest that the plaster bust is derivative of an unidentified intermediary copy.

J Giusti & Co

Portrait of Dante

GST/7
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster portrait after a 15th century bronze bust of Dante Alighieri in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

J Giusti & Co

Unidentified female portrait

GST/5
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster portrait of an unidentified woman.

J Giusti & Co

Greek portrait

GST/9
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster portrait after a Greek bust.

J Giusti & Co

Unidentified female death mask

GST/8
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster copy of a death mask of an unknown woman.

Charles Smith & Sons

Portrait of Voltaire

GST/6
Item
Early 20th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster bust after one of several "seated Voltaire" sculptures completed by the workshop of Jean Antoine Houdon in the late 18th century.

*Not available / given

Sculptured head

NMC/0263
Item
1970s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

This item was badly damaged in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. It was assessed by a conservator but no conservation work was deemed possible.

Leckie, Alexander

Portrait of Professor William J Smith

NMC/0921
Item
1960

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Portrait bust of Professor Smith, with triangular stand.

Schotz, Benno

Framed plaster portrait

NMC/1631
Item
19th century-20th century

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Wooden framed plaster relief portrait of a bearded man in profile with brown glaze. Bottom left corner has initials "J.R." or "R.J" and indecipherable signature above left shoulder. This item was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014 and was conserved in 2018.

*Not available / given

John Bruce Ball

NMC/1413
Item
1948

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Schotz, Benno

Mamie Biggar

NMC/1442
Item
1937

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Portrait head of the artist's sister, Mamie.

Biggar, Helen Manson

Mould of unidentfied female bust

GST/14
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster mould of an unidentified female bust.

J Giusti & Co

Mould of unidentified Greek bust

GST/15
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

J Giusti & Co

Mould of 'Young Octavian'

GST/16
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

Plaster mould, likely after the 'Young Octavian' portrait of emperor Augustus in the Vatican Museums.

J Giusti & Co

Mould of bust of Dante

GST/13
Item
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

J Giusti & Co

Bust of John Morrison Groundwater

NMC/0264
Item
1931

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Bronze portrait bust on marble stand. On silver plate on plinth, "J.M. Groundwater Esq/Associated with the School of Art from 1873 to 1931/ Secretary and Treasurer 1908-1931".

Dawson, Archibald

Plaster seal featuring portrait of Charles Dowell

NMC/1808
Item
1920

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Plaster relief roundel with raised silhouette portrait of Charles Dowell and 'Chas R Dowell 1920' in raised lettering in legend. Signed W T Miller.

Sir John Richmond

NMC/0261
Item
1947

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Bronze portrait bust.

Schotz, Benno

Bust of infant (Version 2)

GST/29/v2
Part
Late 19th century-mid 20th century

Part of The Giusti Plaster Cast Collection

J Giusti & Co

Plaster cast of Augustus of Primaporta (Version 1)

PC/003/v1
Part
20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Augustus of Primaporta (Version 3)

PC/003/v3
Part
20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Augustus of Primaporta (Version 2)

PC/003/v2
Part
20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Apollo Sauroctonos (Lizard Slayer)

PC/006
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

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.

Plaster cast of Apollo Sauroctonos (Lizard Slayer) (Version 1)

PC/006/v1
Part
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Apollo Sauroctonos (Lizard Slayer) (Version 2)

PC/006/v2
Part
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Apollo Sauroctonos (Lizard Slayer) (Version 3)

PC/006/v3
Part
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Apollo Sauroctonos (Lizard Slayer) (Version 4)

PC/006/v4
Part
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Apollo Sauroctonos (Lizard Slayer) (Version 5)

PC/006/v5
Part
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Canephora (Kanephoros)

PC/007
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

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.