Historic Ornament coursework of John Walter Lindsay, architect and student of the Glasgow School of Art, 1926-2008

Scope and Content
Labelled by John Walter Lindsay as folder no. 1, section 1, student 80. Contains sketches, drawings and notes.
17 items labelled by John Walter Lindsay:
1. Marble vase
2. Greek art: Ionic capital from Bassae, Doric capital from Delos, Corinthian capital from the Pantheon, Capitoline centaur from Aristeas and Papias
3. Egyptian art: capital rep. eight papyrus buds bound together and adorned with coloured fasciae, Egyptian boat builder, combination of lotus and papyrus in form of a column, boat of papyrus, piece of border ornament
4. Assyrian art: Assyrian shrines, border relief, capital and base, fishing boat, wall relief, Assyrian bas-relief, portion of Assyrian border design
5. Mycenaean art: gold cup from grave, terra-cotta vase from a grave, fragment of a grave, typical capital and base with detail of shaft, bas relief over lion's gate
6. Candelabrum capital, design on a Roman atelier
7. Byzantine
8. Roman
9. Greek
10. Louis IV French
11. Adams - English
12. Unlabelled
13. Italian Renaissance
14. Georgian - English
15. Unlabelled
16. Jacobean Furniture
17.Unlabelled
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