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- 1. Dr. Marta Bustillo Assistant Librarian, Harry Clarke Studios Demonstrator Project Digital Resources and Imaging Services, Trinity College Library Dublin (Ireland) The Clarke Stained Glass Studios Collection: A collaboration between a library, a national repository, cultural institutions and the academic community Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities. Library of Birmingham, October 29-30 2014 Panel 6: Visualizing the digital discovery
- 2. The Clarke Studios Demonstrator Project Digitisation and cataloguing of Clarke Stained Glass Studios material held at the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin: http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie
- 3. Clarke Stained Glass ➢Stained Glass and church decorating business, founded by Joshua Clarke (1858-1921) ca. 1886. ➢Continued by his sons Harry Clarke (1889-1931) and Walter Clarke (1880-1930) after Joshua's death. ➢Became Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd. in 1930. ➢Continued after Harry Clarke's death in 1931. ➢Closed in 1973.
- 4. The Digital Repository of Ireland DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities and Social Sciences Data - linking and preserving the rich data held by Irish institutions, with a central internet access point - Our Cultural & Social Heritage http://dri.ie/
- 5. The Demonstrator Projects: Partner Institutions
- 6. Attributed to Richard King: St. Brendan the Navigator. Colour design for unidentified stained glass window. IE TCD MS11182/206
- 7. A small boat that could get lost….
- 8. Solutions Know your value Collaborate
- 9. What can we offer? Art History History Postcolonial Studies
- 11. TCD Library Departments: •Manuscripts & Archives Research Library •Preservation & Conservation The Clarke Studios Collection Video
- 12. Collaboration with Academic Departments •Lecture at the Loyola Institute: Stained Glass & Theology. •Conversation with the Trinity Irish Art Research Centre: One M.Phil dissertation for the academic year 2013-2014 was written about the Clarke Studios. •Funding received from the Trinity Long Room Hub for a symposium on the Clarke Studios archive and its digital collection.
- 14. Collaboration with Cultural Institutions: Irish Cultural institutions with material potentially related to the Clarke Studios: •National Gallery of Ireland: Preliminary discussions with their department of Prints and Drawings; a collaboration proposal currently being examined by management at Trinity College Library Dublin. •Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art. •Crawford Gallery. •National Library of Ireland.
- 15. The future: •Photographs of the actual stained glass windows? •Crowd sourcing to help identify designs with no information about them?
- 16. Thank you!
Notes de l'éditeur
- Clarke Studios Demonstrator Project: A collaborative project between the Digital Resources and Imaging Services at Trinity College Dublin Library and the Digital Repository of Ireland. It will digitise and make available online through the Digital Collections website sections from the Clarke Studios business archive. Original Clarke business archive donated to the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library in Trinity College Dublin in 1973, after the firm closed down. Acquisition of a further 1400 designs in 2004. Image credits: Harry Clarke. Man and woman wearing cloaks with castle and river in background. IE TCD MS11182/1197. Image copyright: The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Reproduced with permission.
- Image credits: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd.: Two men laying out a window that has been fired at the Clarke Studios. IE TCD MS11182/1400/317 Image copyright: The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Reproduced with permission. Clarke Stained Glass was a highly regarded and prolific firm, which created stained glass windows for churches in every county in Ireland, and also in the U.K., the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, etc. It was founded by Joshua Clarke ca. 1886, and continued by his sons Harry Clarke & Walter Clarke. Harry Clarke (1889-1931) is one of the most prominent Irish artists of the 20th century. His stained glass windows were highly original, and he was also well known for his illustrations of books such as Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Tales of Mystery & Imagination’ and Hans Christian Andersen’s tales. Harry Clarke died in 1931, and his wife Margaret Clarke took over the running of the firm, with the help of a series of managers which included some of the most highly regarded stained glass artists of the period, such as Terence Clarke, William Dowling, Richard King and many others.
- Digital Repository of Ireland: A national repository for social sciences and humanities data from institutions around Ireland, which provides a central access point for data sets from Irish academic and cultural institution. DRI receives funding from the Higher Education Authority of Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme and the Ireland Funds. The aggregation of data sets allows for the creation of rich cultural narratives, using data from separate collections in an interrelated manner.
- Digital Repository of Ireland: A national repository for social sciences and humanities data from institutions around Ireland, which provides a central access point for data sets from Irish academic and cultural institution. DRI receives funding from the Higher Education Authority of Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme and the Ireland Funds. The aggregation of data sets allows for the creation of rich cultural narratives, using data from separate collections in an interrelated manner.
- The DRI constitutes an instant means of collaboration with other academic and cultural institutions. However, we also needed to think about how to find the right audience for our digital materials. This image of St. Brendan encapsulates how we thought about the collection. St. Brendan sailed the Atlantic from Ireland in a small boat and was reputed to have reached the Isle of Saints [possibly Greenland]. Image credits: Attributed to Richard King: St. Brendan the Navigator. Colour design for unidentified stained glass window. IE TCD MS11182/206. Image copyright: The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Reproduced with permission.
- Our collection was like that small boat, which could easily get lost in a sea of digital information and be forgotten. So…what to do?
- To address this issue, one must: Know the value of the collection. Collaborate with other individuals and organisations in order to promote its content.
- Knowing the value of one collection means understanding what the collection can offer to different research fields. The Clarke Studios Collection contains materials of relevance to art history, history, theology, postcolonial studies, and gender studies among other academic fields. It also contain materials about the social history of Ireland that may be of interest to the general public, primary teachers, etc. It was therefore important to map out how these different audiences could be informed about our digitised content, and benefit from it. Image credits: Left: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd.: St Joseph and Jesus as a boy, holding carpentry tools. Colour design for unidentified three-light stained glass window. Date unknown. IE TCD MS11182/379. . Image copyright: The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Reproduced with permission. Centre: J. Clarke & Sons: Chaplain (Major the Rev S. S. Knapp) stands before an altar in a battlefield in Flanders, blessing troops from the Irish Guards, with burning buildings in the background. Colour design for unidentified two-light stained glass window. Ca. 1918. IE TCD MS11182/77. Image copyright: The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Reproduced with permission. Right: A presentation to the Holy Father. Black and white photograph supplied by a Sister Magdalene, of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan. Date unknown. IE TCD MS6087/2/41. Orphan work.
- Collaboration map: A diagram of the university departments and external individuals and institutions who are paramount to the success of the project, both in terms of the process of digitisation and cataloguing, and in terms of making the collection known to prospective users.
- Library departments: There were two library departments that were most involved with the project: Manuscripts & Archives Research Library and Preservation & Conservation. We wanted to communicate news about this project to the rest of the Library, and took the opportunity when we were invited to a short presentation about our project for the Library Staff Forum in March 2014. Created a short video with the help of our colleague Gerald O’Connor, and with participation from staff in Manuscripts & Archives, Conservation & Digital Resources. The video explained the origins of the collection and what was being done to digitise it. It promoted awareness of the collection among Library staff. As a result, some colleagues sent us queries from library users regarding Clarke Studios materials.
- Academic departments: Lecture at the Loyola Institute (Theology) presenting some of the highlights of the collection, attracted over 100 attendees, most of whom were interested in Harry Clarke’s stained glass and became aware of the collection for the first time. Conversations with TCD History of Art Department and Trinity Irish Art Research Centre: As a result, one MPhil dissertation was written using materials from the Clarke Studios archive; and a staff member from the project was invited to act as a second marker for the dissertation. Contributed small items about the project in the History of Art and History departmental newsletters: This widened the audience for the digital collection. Applied for the Trinity Long Room Hub’s Research Incentive Scheme funding for a symposium to promote the collection. Funding approved, and now in the process of organising the symposium, in collaboration with the Trinity Irish Art Research Centre at TCD. Symposium designed to raise awareness of the collection among interested researchers, and to discuss the relevance of digital collections of this type for humanities research in Ireland.
- Clarke Studios Symposium: Symposium advisory group includes academics involved in the study of Irish art and Irish stained glass. Process of finding speakers for the symposium has expanded awareness of the collection among researchers. Speakers will be asked to use our digital collection when preparing their papers, and talk about their experience using the online collection as part of their paper.. Digital Collections site is currently being upgraded to include the possibility of discussing any given image: we hope this will foster scholarly collaboration among researchers. Symposium website will go live in early November. Symposium funding application also included the collection of data about the use of the Clarke Studios material by participants after the event, illuminating the impact of the digitization project on existing research.
- Collaboration with religious institutions to photograph the windows that relate to the material in the Clarke Studios Collection. Possibly, to start a crowd sourcing exercise, to get the general public involved in identifying designs for windows in our collection, for which we have no information. Image credits: Left: Attributed to William Dowling: The apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary of Alacoque. Pencil drawing for an unidentified single-light stained glass window. Image copyright: The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Reproduced with permission. Centre: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd.: The apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary of Alacoque. Colour scheme for an unidentified single-light stained glass window. Image copyright: The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Reproduced with permission. Right: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd.: The apparition of the Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary of Alacoque. Stained glass window. Belvedere College, Dublin. Image copyright: The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Reproduced with permission. We didn’t know which religious institution the pencil drawing and the colour scheme were destined for initially. Then we started scoping out the churches in our local vicinity that we wanted to photograph, and Belvedere College, a Jesuit secondary school in Dublin city centre, was the first on our list, because Harry Clarke himself had been a pupil there. When we photographed the windows, we immediately recognised the similarities between this stained glass window and two designs we had in our collection, despite the fact that the designs were for a single-light window, and the eventual stained glass window had two lights. Although the designs may have been used for a number of actual windows, there is no denying the link between them.
- Image credits: David Clarke: Colour impression for a three-light window. Oil on millboard. IE TCD MS11182/74. Image copyright: The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Reproduced with permission.