DOI issue:
No. 109 (April, 1902)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0217
Studio- Talk
collaborating with Prof. V. M. Simpson, and fifty-six feet, and the surrounding open space being
Messrs. Willink and Thicknesse as architects. planned to be laid out with shrubbery and flowers,
- a great embellishment to the heart of the city is
The general design has a dome supported on anticipated,
our groups of four columns, standing on projecting H. B. IS.
pedestals, the whole surrounded by a flight of
circular steps leading to the central platform, on "X LASGOW.—The present exhibition of
which is the pedestal with a bronze figure 01 the m the Royal Glasgow Institute of the
Queen fourteen feet high, clad in robes of state. % Fine Arts is of unusually varied
The dome is surmounted with a bronze figure of interest. As well as a strong repre-
Victory, and the flanking pedestals are to have sentation of the work of the Glasgow group, fine
figures symbolical of Justice, Charity, Peace and and typical examples are shown of painters of
Knowledge, each in bronze. The ceiling of the such diverse styles as Edward Stott and E. A.
domed canopy is to have gold mosaic, to reflect Abbey, Bonguereau and Wyllie, Alfred East and
a circle of electric lights upon the central figure. Renoir, von Lenbach and J. M. Swan, Israels and
_ Sir W. B. Richmond, George Clausen and Sargent,
. . . McTaggart and H. Draper: while the Scottish
The site chosen for the monument is an lm- . , , „. ,
. . . . painters, other than the Glasgow men, are excel-
portant and historic one, tor m the earliest times , , t , , ~, „ , ,
1 lently represented by Sir George Keid and Robert
the Castle of Liverpool stood there. „ , „ , t ,, „ „ ,,r .„ ,
1 Brough, Robert MacGregor, R. \V. Allan, and
many others. The President of the Scottish
The total height of the monument being about Academy is admirably seen in a forceful and
THE SAILING OF THE BOAT" BY ALEXANDER ROCHE, R.S.A.
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collaborating with Prof. V. M. Simpson, and fifty-six feet, and the surrounding open space being
Messrs. Willink and Thicknesse as architects. planned to be laid out with shrubbery and flowers,
- a great embellishment to the heart of the city is
The general design has a dome supported on anticipated,
our groups of four columns, standing on projecting H. B. IS.
pedestals, the whole surrounded by a flight of
circular steps leading to the central platform, on "X LASGOW.—The present exhibition of
which is the pedestal with a bronze figure 01 the m the Royal Glasgow Institute of the
Queen fourteen feet high, clad in robes of state. % Fine Arts is of unusually varied
The dome is surmounted with a bronze figure of interest. As well as a strong repre-
Victory, and the flanking pedestals are to have sentation of the work of the Glasgow group, fine
figures symbolical of Justice, Charity, Peace and and typical examples are shown of painters of
Knowledge, each in bronze. The ceiling of the such diverse styles as Edward Stott and E. A.
domed canopy is to have gold mosaic, to reflect Abbey, Bonguereau and Wyllie, Alfred East and
a circle of electric lights upon the central figure. Renoir, von Lenbach and J. M. Swan, Israels and
_ Sir W. B. Richmond, George Clausen and Sargent,
. . . McTaggart and H. Draper: while the Scottish
The site chosen for the monument is an lm- . , , „. ,
. . . . painters, other than the Glasgow men, are excel-
portant and historic one, tor m the earliest times , , t , , ~, „ , ,
1 lently represented by Sir George Keid and Robert
the Castle of Liverpool stood there. „ , „ , t ,, „ „ ,,r .„ ,
1 Brough, Robert MacGregor, R. \V. Allan, and
many others. The President of the Scottish
The total height of the monument being about Academy is admirably seen in a forceful and
THE SAILING OF THE BOAT" BY ALEXANDER ROCHE, R.S.A.
204