- NMC/1124
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- c1940s-1960s
Miller, Josephine Haswell
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Miller, Josephine Haswell
Miller, Josephine Haswell
Architectural styles - Grecian
Study of various ruins, stone capitals and columns.
Fulton, James Black
Details of Corinthian order, from the monument of Lysicrates, Athens.
Wilson, William Gilmour
Various studies of Greek columns, capitals etc.
Kerr, Robert
Part of Records and textiles of the Needlework Development Scheme
Greek. On coarse linen embroidered in cross-stitch in grey and pink thick cotton yarn. Stylised repeating leaf motif.
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Fragment of Greek Island Embroidery
Part of Records and textiles of the Needlework Development Scheme
Greek. Embroidered in coloured silks and metal thread. Symmetrical floral design with stylised roses and carnations etc.
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Various studies of Classical columns, porticos etc.
Kerr, Robert
Details of Greek Doric order, from the Parthenon, Athens.
Wilson, William Gilmour
Greek monument/temple building
Grand design for temple building with colonnade.
Noad, Richard Mervyn
Hugh Ferguson graduated from Glasgow School of Art/Architecture in 1955. His collection of papers includes a notebook of 'Descriptive Geometry' from The Royal Technical College containing notes and detailed mathematical drawings.
Ferguson received the Alexander Thompson Travelling Scholarship in 1964 and another notebook/sketchbook documents his travels over one month in Greece - from 15th of August to 5th September 1964. Two weeks were spent resident in Athens and two weeks travelling; he visited many sites including Delphi, Eleusis, Daphni, Ossios Loukas, Brauron, Mycanae, Tiryns, Pylos, Epidauros, Olympia and Corinth. Detailed notes are given on the work going on at these sites, accompanied by around 33 photographs of ongoing architectural work.
Loose papers include information on the life and works of Alexander Thompson as well as a draft of the text for the final bound travel notebook.
Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.
Ferguson, Hugh C S
Details of Ionic order from the North Portico, Erectheion, Athens.
Wilson, William Gilmour
Plaster cast of a Centaur and Lapiths (Metope South II), part of Parthenon Frieze
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Original: Shows the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos. Original: Phidias, c442 BC. Marble. Parthenon, Athens, Greece. Currently in the collection of the British Museum (Part of ‘The Elgin Marbles’).
Plaster cast of a Centaur and Lapiths (Metope South II), part of Parthenon Frieze (Version 1)
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Plaster cast of a Centaur and Lapiths (Metope South II), part of Parthenon Frieze (Version 2)
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Plaster cast of acroteria from Greek temple
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Original: Roman copy (2nd century bc) of a Greek original (c325 bc); currently in the collection of the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
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Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior
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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.
Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior (Version 1)
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Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior (Version 2)
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Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior (Version 3)
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Plaster cast of Charioteer of Delphi
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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.
Plaster cast of Charioteer of Delphi (Version 1)
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Plaster cast of Charioteer of Delphi (Version 2)
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Plaster cast of Charioteer of Delphi (Version 3)
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Plaster cast of Charioteer of Delphi (Version 4)
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Plaster cast of Charioteer of Delphi (Version 5)
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Plaster cast of Charioteer of Delphi (Version 6)
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Plaster cast of Crouching Discobolos
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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 collectio of the British Museum, London, UK.
Plaster cast of Crouching Venus (Crouching Aphrodite)
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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.
Plaster cast of Crouching Venus (Crouching Aphrodite) (Version 1)
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Plaster cast of Crouching Venus (Crouching Aphrodite) (Version 2)
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Plaster cast of decorated pilaster capital, possibly from Erechtheion
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Original: Phidias, 400 BC. Marble. Possibly from Erectheion, the temple dedicated to Athena on the Acropolis. Stylised forms of nature. Athens, Greece.
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Plaster cast of decorated pilaster capital, possibly from Erechtheion (Version 1)
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Plaster cast of decorated pilaster capital, possibly from Erechtheion (Version 2)
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Plaster cast of Dione and Aphrodite (From Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite)
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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.
Plaster cast of Dione and Aphrodite (From Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite) (Version 1)
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Plaster cast of Dione and Aphrodite (From Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite) (Version 2)
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Plaster cast of Dione and Aphrodite (From Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite) (Version 3)
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Fragment of femal form, hips to shoulders. Hellenistic style.
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Plaster cast of head of a horse from Selene's Chariot
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Original: Figure from east pediment of the Parthenon. Acropolis, Athens, 447-432 BC. Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.
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Original: Hebe was the Greek goddess of youth and a cup-bearer for the gods. Original currently in the collection of the Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
Plaster cast of Hermes of Praxiteles (Hermes and the Infant Dionysus)
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Original: Greek sculpture of Hermes and the infant Dionysus discovered in 1877 in the ruins of the Temple of Hera at Olympia. It is traditionally attributed to Praxiteles and dated to the 4th century BC. 3/4 size sculpture. Original currently in the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Greece.
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Venus with missing arm, supported by branch with cherub. Original: Roman copy of Greek statue c2 BC, of Hellenistic style. Listed in the first catalogue of casts as Greek, located in the 'Florence Gallery' and was purchased from D. Brucciani.
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Plaster cast of Medici Venus (Version 1)
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Plaster cast of Medici Venus (Version 2)
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Original: Greco-Roman attribution, shows Mercury God of merchandise and merchants, commonly identified with the Greek Hermes, fleet-footed messenger of the gods.
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 Mercury (Version 1)
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Plaster cast of Mercury (Version 2)
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