Description Of Item | This classicised marble bust was created by George MacCallum. The College's council minutes of 11 March 1868 indicate that this bust attracted their attention when it was ‘exhibited in the Royal Academy’. The council suggested that the College should purchase the bust and on 5 May of the same year the College decided to follow the recommendation to acquire the bust and ‘to complete a purchase thereof for a sum not exceeding £100 with the view of having the same placed in the College Hall’.
Artist: MacCallum, George |