Sketches
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:
Sketches of Edinburgh and environs by the Rev William Paget.
File
Identifier: Acc.12209
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches illustrating the great fire of Edinburgh in November 1824.
Dates:
1824.
Sketches, plans, photographs and parts of set models of Pamela Howard`s production designs for "Border Warfare", "John Brown`s Body" and "Wicked Old Man" by John McGrath.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12953
Dates:
circa 1988-1992.
Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.
File
Identifier: Acc.12866
Scope and Contents
Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.
Dates:
circa 1914-1946.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.16
Scope and Contents
A. (i) 'Macer Floridus, de viribus [so in title, 'virtutibus' in explicit] herbarum' by Odo of Meung(?). There are marginal headings throughout and two glosses on folio 1. A slightly later hand has added English equivalents of the plant-names (and also started to list them on folio 93 verso). A contents-list in a court-hand of the 13th century is on folio 39 verso. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum’, i.e. 'De lapidibus' by Marbod. (Folio 40.)(iii) Medical...
Dates:
12th century.
Two letters of John Brown with a sketch entitled "Rab`s Surviving Friend".
File
Identifier: Acc.12432
Dates:
1872.
Two letters of Thomas Faed.
File
Identifier: Acc.11362
Scope and Contents
One letter is illustrated with a sketch discussing his 1849 painting of Sir Walter Scott and his literary friends at Abbotsford.
Includes a sketch, with key, by John Faed of his picture of Shakespeare and his friends at the Mermaid Tavern.
Dates:
circa 1849-1900.
Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.
File
Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents
Kept during a visit to Edinburgh and the Borders.
With notes and comments by the transcriber John S B Pratt Junior, undated
photocopy of a charcoal sketch, circa 1838, of Dr Boyd
biographical note, 1882.
Dates:
1831-1882.
Volume containing watercolour sketches, photographs, maps and geological notes of John Francis Campbell, recording a visit he made to North America in the autumn of 1864., 1864.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.1
Dates:
1864.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Volume entitled ‘Solar Spherical Scale for Sketching’, dated May 1881, Naples, containing a number of diagrams and sketches., 1881.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.3
Dates:
1881.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12181
Scope and Contents
Accession includes:
1. sketchbook, 1943-1944,
2. an earlier volume of poetry written by Barclay,
3. Barlcay`s wartime record kept by his wife, Annie.
Dates:
1943-1948.
Watercolour sketch of Duntulm Castle, by Constance Gordon Cumming.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7156
Scope and Contents
Drawn for an illustration of her "From the Hebrides to the Himalayas" (1876).
Dates:
circa 1876.