After the disastrous fire yesterday I have been thinking a lot about the Scottish School of Art and looking through this catalogue from 1977 of the work of Jessie M King (Tutor in Book Decoration and Design at Glasgow School and one of the Glasgow Four - which included Charles Rennie Mackintosh).
Although an auction catalogue it is full of colour and black and white pictures. Very striking that there are as many English-themed illustrations as Scottish. "Edinburgh as the Enchanted Capital" (pen and ink and wash). "Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms" (pen and ink on vellum laid on board). "The High History of the Holy Grail". "Our Trees and How To Know Them".
Tucked in the catalogue is a price list. It is very unlikely that my parents bought anything from this auction as they would not have had the money - probably the catalogue was picked up second-hand. But £60 for a Mackintosh illustration sounds a bargain by today's estimates.
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