A rather delightful pair of sculpted column capitals featuring a hound chasing a stag through the foliage which wraps round them. They're on the 1920s Memorial Chapel at Glasgow University and were created by Archibald Dawson.
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Love this sculpture on the corner of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company Building on St Vincent Street in Glasgow, especially the webbed foot poking out the bottom of the cartouche. It was created by Archibald Dawson when the building was constructed the 1920s.
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So, within these two very similar sculptures we have a story of artistry, debt, financial woes, scholarship and finally a loving memorial to a mentor from someone who was a member of the last generation of Glasgow's great architectural sculptors.
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One of the reason for Dawson's financial struggles was due to the failure of architects to pay for the work they commissioned, and this included J.J. Burnet, for whom Dawson worked on 200 Saint Vincent Street in the late 1920s. This led Dawson to leave an IOU (or more strictly a UOI!) hidden in one of this building's column capitals.
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These two statues, Day on the Tennent Memorial Building on Church Street in Glasgow, and the Seafarer on the nearby 200 Saint Vincent Street, are very similar to each other, to the extent that it might appear they were done by the same hand, but they were not. Instead, there's a much more interesting link between the two.
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