View of Glasgow Town Hall (now demolished) and the Tontine Hotel with an equestrian monument in the foreground, Scotland

People:

Thomas Annan (photographer)
Allan Dreghorn (architect)
William Hamilton (architect)

Title:

View of Glasgow Town Hall (now demolished) and the Tontine Hotel with an equestrian monument in the foreground, Scotland

Date:

1868-1871

Description:

- Glasgow Town Hall is identifed by a sign "[illeg.] ALL WORKING MEN'S CLUB". The keystones of the arcades of the building are carved with human heads and grotesques known as the "Tontine Heads".

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 30.9 x 37.2 cm page: 40.5 x 54.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:0358:001

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled, numbered and imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, l.l.: "1." and with title [in italics]

Location:

Glasgow; Scotland; United Kingdom;

Subject:

architecture
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

chimneys (architectural elements)
figures (representations)
parapet
statue
signs
monument
pediment
hotel (public accommodation)
semicircular arches
town hall
equestrian statue
coffeehouse
Ionic
Ionic order pilasters
grotesques

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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