Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Woodcut prints depicting the St George myth

DC 084/7/14
Item
c1934-1940

Part of Material relating to Gerard V Murphy, former GSA student

Two multicolour-printed pieces of teaching examples for printmaking, attached to backing paper. These prints illustrate the heroic myth of Saint George slaying a dragon. Also used as teaching materials in schools in Scotland, as marked with the level of students "Sixth year."

Murphy, Gerard V

Venus de Milos

DB/72
Item
1851

Part of The Duncan Brown Photographic Collection

Volume I.

Brown, Duncan

Venus de Milo

DB/134
Item
c1853-1896

Part of The Duncan Brown Photographic Collection

Volume II.

Brown, Duncan

Venus de Medici

DB/73
Item
1853

Part of The Duncan Brown Photographic Collection

Volume I.

Brown, Duncan

Venus

DB/133
Item
c1853-1896

Part of The Duncan Brown Photographic Collection

Volume II.

Brown, Duncan

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/19
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Nine designs attached to one piece of paper. Mostly designs for borders and details.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/17
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Three designs attached to one piece of paper: one design for a border; one design detail; one larger, predominantly red design.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/21
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Three designs attached to one piece of paper: Two of which are Paisley pattern like the rest of the collection, but one is a floral rug design.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/12
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Two designs attached to one piece of paper: one maroon; one comprising reds, greens and blues.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/20
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Five designs attached to one piece of paper, featuring yellows, turquoise and maroon.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/23
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Four designs attached to one piece of paper. Predominantly based on maroons and pinks.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/10
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Four designs attached to one piece of paper. Mostly on black or dark backgrounds.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/22
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Four designs attached to one piece of paper, including turquoises and pinks.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/8
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Two designs attached to one piece of paper.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl designs

DC 039/9
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Two designs attached to one piece of paper.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/1
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly reds, pinks and purples. Annotated "No 24".

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/15
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly pinks and reds. Annotated "No 73".

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/2
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/24
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly based on reds and maroons.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/4
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly reds, purples and pinks.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/13
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly purples and maroons.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/16
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly reds.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/27
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly based on pinks and greens.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/6
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/7
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominatly greens and purples.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/18
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly reds and maroons.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/25
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly maroons.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/3
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/5
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Brown design on green background.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/11
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Reds and greens on black background.

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/14
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Design for a border, predominantly greens and pinks. Annotated "No 7".

*Not available / given

Untitled Paisley shawl design

DC 039/26
Item
1840s-1850s

Part of Paisley Shawl Designs

Predominantly pinks on a black background.

*Not available / given

Theseus from Parthenon & Discobolus casts at GSA

DB/200
Item
c1853-1896

Part of The Duncan Brown Photographic Collection

Volume II.

Brown, Duncan

Sir Walter Scott

DC 038/22
Item
c1956

Part of Anne Scott Doll Collection

Costume doll: Sir Walter Scott, 1773-1832, 1st Baronet was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe.

Scott, Anne

Ship block printing display case

NMC/1625
Item
20th century

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Wooden display case showing process of wood and linoleum block printing, featuring ship design. Loose paper GSA label once attached to back of case with writing "Design. B-Block Printing". Due to information in archival documentation, display case can be dated pre-1943. This item was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014 and was conserved in 2018.

*Not available / given

Prince Albert

DC 038/25
Item
c1956

Part of Anne Scott Doll Collection

Costume doll: Prince Albert of Saxcoburg-Gotha, Consort of Queen Victoria (or 19th Century Man).

Scott, Anne

Presbyterian Minister/Covenanters Group

DC 038/13
Item
c1956

Part of Anne Scott Doll Collection

Costume doll: Presbyterian Minister/Covenanters Group, c1640, (or Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658).

Scott, Anne

Portrait with case and cast

DB/112
Item
c1853-1896

Part of The Duncan Brown Photographic Collection

Volume II.

Brown, Duncan

Plaster cast of top capital with foliate ornament

PC/092
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Capital decorated with stylized leaves with portion of pilaster.

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of the Belvedere Apollo (also called Pythian Apollo)

PC/004
Item
19th 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: The Apollo is thought to be a Roman copy of Hadrianic date (120 - 140 BC) of a lost bronze original made between 350 and 325 BC by the Greek sculptor Leochares. Statue depicts the Greek god Apollo, who has just overtaken the serpent Python, the cthonic serpent of Delphi. Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine, healing and plague; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Listed in first catalogue of casts as Greco-Roman and from the Vatican Museum, and purchased from D. Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the Vatican Museum, Rome, italy.

Plaster cast of stele with decorative strapwork

PC/099
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Stele with strips or ribbons of ornamentation. Annotated with "7".

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of standing putto

PC/210
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Small putto statue supported by tree stump.

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of spandrel

PC/152
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, London, UK.

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of shoulder muscle with neck and arm muscle structure

PC/222
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of section of entablature

PC/148
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Entablature with egg and dart enrichment and a series of small masks.

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of section of cornice with bands of ornament

PC/125
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Ornament including bands of egg and darts enrichment.

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of roundel with flower

PC/145
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of remembrance panel

PC/208
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Panel with commemorations flanked by man and woman with cherubs and surrounded by decorative ornamentation.

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of Queen

PC/053
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Body of a Queen with the head of a King.

This item was damaged in the fire in the Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. It underwent conservation and consolidation work in 2016.

Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze (West Frieze II)

PC/016G
Item
19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. Horsemen. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.

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