Glasgow School of Art, interior View of Museum
BL 20762/3
Description Glasgow School of Art, interior View of Museum
Date 1909 to 1910
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 20762/3
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies B 64748, GW 3639 PO, SC 677602
Scope and Content View of the Museum, Glasgow School of Art, No 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow The museum of the Glasgow School of Art was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh as 'a feature in connection with the staircase'. This photograph, taken in 1910 by Harry Bedford Lemere, shows the original arrangement of the museum's plaster casts. The staircase, rising from the entrance hall below, is framed at its four corners by columns with flat caps which meet the roof beams above. The timber trusses of the roof have heart-shapes, and the leaf-shapes typical of Mackintosh, cut into them. The original function of the museum was to show a variety of plaster casts, only one of which now remains in place. This cast, part of a portal from Chartres Cathedral in France showing the Ancestors of Christ, is seen on the right of the photograph. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 56
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/404998
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