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Student Notebook, anonymous

  • DC 056
  • Collection
  • [19th century-20th century]

Student Art History notebook, contains mainly writings on Egyptian Art and Architecture, Medieval Christian Art, Flemish Art, English Art. Notebook also contains some illustrations.

Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.

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Newscutting featuring advertisement for the Art School Festival

The newscutting informs of the reception and dance that were held at The Glasgow School of Art on the day it was published. The evening entertainment included the presentation of two plays by Francis H. Newbery. It shows photographs of four principals in the plays: Miss J. Cameron, Mr A. G. Crombie, Mr J. C. M'Fayden, and Mr J. Huck.

Originally located within folder (DC 098/1/4).

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Artworks

A variety of paintings and artworks completed by Archibald Haswell Miller and Josephine Haswell Miller, including urban landscapes, portraits, and military scenes. Some of these items are dated to their time as teaching staff at The Glasgow School of Art.

Miller, Archibald E Haswell

Group photograph featuring Haswell Miller alongside three students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich

The photograph features Archibald Haswell Miller in the centre back of the image alongside three other students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. The annotations below the photograph show the text "R. Covert" and "A Haswell Miller".

The reverse of the photograph shows the text "AEHM in Germany (Munich) as a student (about 21 yrs)".

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Photograph of a tea party hosted by the Greiffenhagens

The photograph features a tea party given by the Greiffenhagens.

The top right corner of the cardboard shows the text "c1913". The following annotations were added below the photograph:
"A Tea Party given by the Greiffenhagens in 1913, in his studio in the Glasgow School of Art.
Standing: A. G. Crombie
Robinson
Andrina Smith (?)
Alma Assafrey

Seated: Mrs Beatrice Greiffenhagen
Johnstone ?
Maurice Greiffenhagen, R.Q
Eliz. Josephine Cameron
Alex Musgrove"

An annotation on the top right corner shows "c1913".

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Newscutting featuring the Scottish Art Club's Show

The photograph features a group of six men looking at a set of paintings hung on the wall.

The newscutting is titled "At a Scottish Art Club's Show". The supporting text reads "A group of artists and members of the Hanging Committee at the annual exhibition of work by members of the Glasgow Art Club, which is being held in the club's premises just now.–"Bulletin" Photograph."

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "1926?".

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Newscutting featuring Haswell Miller alongside a group of people in the McLellan Galleries

The photograph features a senior group of ten men and two women. Archibald Haswell Miller is standing in the back, fourth from the left.

The supporting text reads "Yesterday was "touching-up day" for the R.S.W. Exhibition in the M'Lellan Galleries, Glasgow, where our camera man secured this interesting study. The group includes Robert Eadie, Norah Neilson Gray, R. C. Young, James Kay, Haswell Miller, A. M'Bride, J. W. Wright, A. P. Thomson (sitting), Tom Hunt, Miss Raeburn, Arch. Kay, and D. Fulton."

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "1928?".

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Newscutting featuring Haswell Miller at the Meeting of the Governors

The photograph features Archibald Haswell Miller and Josephine Haswell Miller alongside a group of males and females.

The supporting text reads "A group at the meeting of the Governors of the Glasgow School of Art this week, when Mr John D. Revel (centre), of Chelsea, was introduced to the board on the occasion of his taking up duty.–"Bulletin" Photo." The newscutting is supported by a handwritten map located below it. It offers the list of names and the location of the subjects in the photograph.

The cardboard also displays additional annotations by Haswell Miller: "We accepted him with all kindness and welcome. After a few weeks he called the staff together and practically told us he was going to sack the lot! I anticipated this by accepting the keepership of the National Galleries. Edinburgh. (Not very well qualified but standard were low in 1930)".

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "c1928". Additional annotations below the photograph identify the people featured in it.

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Group photograph featuring Haswell Miller alongside three students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich

The photograph features Archibald Haswell Miller in the centre back of the image alongside three other students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. The annotations below the photograph show the names "John R. Covert", "Oliver Smock", A Haswell Miller ("Glasgow-Muller"), and "Louis ("Consul") Miller". They also show the text "Vier Kunstakademiker. München 1909 - / John R. Covert / Oliver Smock / A Haswell Miller ("Glasgow-Muller") / Louis ("Consul") Miller. I [...] taken at a small fair in Munich Spring 1909. The screen represents the [...] of a Zeppelin airship the first of which had just visited Munich with great excitement."

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "1909".

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Group photograph featuring Haswell Miller alongside students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich

The item shows two different photographs. The first photograph features Archibald Haswell Miller smoking a pipe in the centre of the image, alongside a group of seventeen male and one female students. The annotations below the photograph inform it was taken at the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. The text reads "The Marrschule. Munich Akademie 1909. [...] as G.C. with halo hold by Baliut".

The second photograph features John R. Covert sitting in a rocket chair. The annotations on the left hand side show the text "John R. Covert. American faint abstract painter. In Munich 1910". The annotation on the right hand side show the text "Here he is – a malen. Oh see [...] he sits and [...]. He'll paint – perhaps. And perhaps? –".

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "1909-10".

The reverse of the cardboard lists the names and background of the nineteen students in the first photograph. It is supported by a map placing the subjects in the photograph.

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Group photograph featuring Haswell Miller alongside students and staff of the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich

The photograph features Archibald Haswell Miller in the centre of the image, alongside a group of sixteen males and one female in a studio. The man on the right end of the image seems to be an academic. The annotations show the text "MARR SCHULE. MUNICH ACADEMY April 1909", lists the names of some of the people in the photograph and is supported by a map placing them in the photograph.

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "1909".

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Two portrait photographs of Haswell Miller

The item shows two different portrait photographs of Archibald Haswell Miller. The annotation of the first photograph shows the text "London 1912 at 25". The annotation of the second photograph shows the text "Venice 1910 at 23".

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "1910-12".

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Photograph of women portraying a scene

The photograph features fourteen women representing a scene. One of the women is on her knees, head bowed. There is a sign with the words 'A daft lot'.

The reverse of the photograph shows a text addressed to Archibald Haswell Miller.

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Photograph of Haswell Miller dressed as a medieval King

The photograph features Archibald Haswell Miller dressed as a medieval King. The annotations show the text "Glasgow 1910 / I stood in [...] A. L. Jackson (a handsome fellow student or staff [...]) as a King in a [...] which in retrospect was quite a fine production at the School of Art. (I [...] the [...] grown beard did it for me!)".

An annotation on the top right corner shows "1909-10".

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Group photograph of Haswell Miller alongside a group of students representing Rembrandt's 'Anatomy Lesson'

The photograph features a group of eleven male students. One of them is lying on an elevated flat surface with his core undressed, while the others gather around him.

The reverse of the photograph shows the text "E; J; C. Haswell doing a tableau of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson at Glasgow School of Art (1903-4?)".

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Flower prints

Collection of prints and sketches of flowers, fruits, and other plants. Includes empty portfolio used to store the collection of flower prints. Written in pencil on the front cover, "Photographs and Coloured Illustrations of Flowers".

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Architectural prints

Includes two copies of architectural sketches for an early English doorway, entrance to Chapter House, Glasgow Cathedral. Sketch is dated 28 January 1903, supplement to The Builder's Journal and Architectural Record, measured and drawn by Charles Forsyth. Also includes collection of architectural lithograph prints, sketches, and watercolours of various locations including Paris, Rome, Cairo, and throughout the UK, some by E. Hildebrandt. Two have a stamp on corner of work, "Department of Science and Art, Specimen presented to schools". Also includes coloured prints of various rooms in the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia. Views include halls, courtyard, indoor garden, holy vestibule, throne room. Labelled in Russian and French, some include English labels written in pencil. Also includes collection of printed architectural plans and designs including two ordinance surveys of Garnethill and City Centre/Sauchiehall St., three copies of a poster of "100 Years of British Architecture" by The Observer, a floor plan of the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, a poster of "James Caldwell & Co. Abbotsford Stained Glassworks" designs, and three small architectural sketches/plans/designs of Grey Friars Church in Edinburgh, Chartres Cathedral in France, and Candlish Memorial Church in Glasgow.

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Animal prints

Collection of various animal prints including sheep, cows, horses, dogs, and deer with focus on different parts of the anatomy (full body, heads, horns, hoofs, tails, etc). Many prints with French labels. Some prints signed by Robert Hills (1769-1844).

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Cloud studies

Collection of cloud and sky study photographs. Photographs are mounted on a supporting cardboard backing. Most have a stamp on the support that says "Glasgow School of Art and Haldane Academy".

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