Drawings. Visual works.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Visual works produced by drawing, which is the application of lines on a surface, often paper, by using a pencil, pen, chalk, or some other tracing instrument to focus on the delineation of form rather than the application of color. This term is often defined broadly to refer to computer-generated images as well. (AAT) Include sketches under 'Drawings', but ignore doodles, unless particularly noteworthy. (NLS) In the published catalogues this heading was used for pictures. The heading 'Pictures' was used for all lists of pictures and for descriptions of treatises on pictures. (NLS) .
Found in 1220 Collections and/or Records:
Framed presentation copy of the 'View of the New Bridge over the River Tweed at Kelso, Scotland', by William Daniell., [Circa 1802.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19964
Full-size drawing of wrought-iron ornamental work on gates at Auldbar (a scroll)., 19th century
Item
Identifier: MS.15438
Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13290
Scope and Contents
The papers include titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.Family papers include Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland’s Scottish sketchbooks and a series of Game Books recording the activities of the many shooting and fishing parties organised for the Sutherland family and their guests. The manuscript of Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh’s ‘Continuation of the Genealogy of the Family of Sutherland’, 1651, is of...
Dates:
1651-1960
Game Book compiled by William Lockett Agnew, recording shooting parties on the Altyre Estate, at Aldourie and elsewhere. With numerous illustrations of sporting activities and daily life
Item
Identifier: Acc.13541
Scope and Contents
As well as records of sporting parties and their `bags`, the Game Book provides detailed daily accounts of game seen and weather conditions. The album includes numerous photographs of shooting parties and daily activities, principally on the Altyre Estate and at Aldourie Castle and Fetteresso. Many of the photographs are of estate and household servants. There is a fine series of photographs of the interior of Altyre, several of cycling parties including Sir Luke Fildes, R.A., croquet...
Dates:
1887-1908
'Glenfishie game book 1834 to 1841’, containing records of game killed and disposed of., 1834-1841.
Item
Identifier: MS.15152
Scope and Contents
The volume contains an index of sportsmen taking part in the shoots (folios 89) compiled by Edward Charles Ellice of Invergarry. Ellice was probably responsible for pasting the many drawings by Katherine Jane Ellice and several by Edwin Landseer (including an illustrated letter (folios 26-29)) and other guests (which appear to have been cut out of a sketch-book) on blank leaves cut out from the book and tipped in elsewhere throughout the volume.
Dates:
1834-1841.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich.
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Game books containing records of game killed (chiefly by shooting) and disposed of and other occurrences.
Illustrated diary of a journey through the Trossachs and West Perthshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9166
Dates:
1817.
Illustrated log books of the yachts ‘Norma’ and ‘Coquette’, of cruises off the West Coast of Scotland, and also to Brittany and the Channel Islands. Both yachts were owned by Sir Thomas Newnham Deane (1828-1899), an Irish architect. The logs were probably written by his friend, Joseph Manley Todd. They are illustrated with delightful, often humorous, pen and wash drawings by Deane of the party and places they visited.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13216
Dates:
1868-1880.
Illustrated recipe book compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice of Invergarry.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12266
Dates:
1846-1859.
Illustrated travel journal of Samuel Jolly.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11734
Scope and Contents
Contains watercolours and pencil drawings of Scottish Highland scenery.
Dates:
1827.
Illustrations and drawings for editions of 'Lavengro', by George Borrow., Circa 1930-1936.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12091/73-74
'Illustrations of the genealogy of Sir Coutts Trotter', 1st Baronet of Westville, being an abridgement, 1830, of a manuscript genealogy then in Trotter’s possession of the various branches of the family of Moubray, his maternal ancestors., 1830.
Item
Identifier: MS.20265
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 5.
The abridgement was made by John Philp Wood for presentation to Alexander Trotter of Dreghorn, brother of Sir Coutts.
A drawing of the arms of Sir Coutts Trotter is pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1830.
Items relating to the schooling of James Johnston at George Watson's College., 1944-1955.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/1-3
Journal, 1812, of a tour to Loch Katrine by Warren Hastings Anderson, illustrated with pencil and ink drawings, with a journal, 1814, by Anderson of a tour to the Highlands., 1812, 1814.
File
Identifier: MS.14844
Dates:
1812, 1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Journal containing an account of a tour made by an English gentleman 'Among the Alps', probably in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Item
Identifier: MS.10259
Scope and Contents
The journal is profusely illustrated with pencil drawings of the scenery described and of places visited. Several of the drawings bear the initials R D.
Dates:
?Mid 19th century.
Journal of A Coaching Tour in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13707
Scope and Contents
In August 1893, Madeline Halkett, together with her father Sir Peter Arthur Halkett, her cousin Alice Hill and uncle Colonel Francis Hill from Dover, set out by carriage from Pitfirrane House for a week`s tour to the Trossachs. Their route took them from Bridge of Allan to Dunblane, Callander, Aberfoyle, Loch Katrine and the Lake of Menteith. The journal is written humorously in verse and delightfully illustrated with drawings of the party, their carriage, grooms and horses as...
Dates:
1893
Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13639
Scope and Contents
The author of this illustrated journal lived at Bedford Villa, Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol, and was probably Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Octavius Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol.The writer and `Charles` travelled from Bristol to Melrose by train and visited Abbotsford, Melrose Abbey and Dryburgh Abbey before leaving for Edinburgh. Queen Victoria had recently been in Edinburgh and there are numerous pasted in printed drawings of scenes of her visit. The...
Dates:
1886
Journal of `A Month in Scotland by M`, Rev. J.J. Twist, Rector of Holy Innocents Church, Manchester.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13571
Scope and Contents
John James Twist and his travelling companion, C.P. Purton, travelled by rail from Wolverhampton for a month`s holiday in Scotland. In Scotland they took the coach and and steamer, but lalso walked, visiting Lanark, Edinburgh, Burntisland, Loch Leven, Perth, Oban, Inverary, Tarbet, Loch Lomond, Dunkeld, Aberfeldy, Loch Tay, Killin, Glencoe, Loch Katrine, Callendar, Stirling and Alloa.John James Twist comments, often humorously, on places visited, their lodgings and people they...
Dates:
1858
Journal of a tour in Switzerland and Italy, entitled 'Alpine Log No.1, 1860'., 1864.
Item
Identifier: MS.6343
Scope and Contents
A preface at folio iv, signed by 'G.B.', a member of the London Alpine Club, explains that the journal was written four years after the tour had taken place.There is a table of contents at folio v and an itinerary at folio vi.The journal, which is mostly concerned with the climbing activities of the writer and two of his relatives, is divided into chapters, and illustrated by an Alpine photograph, some water-colours and pen-and-ink drawings, some of which are in the...
Dates:
1864.
Journal of a tour of Scotland of Elizabeth Cowburn.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14154
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Cowburn departs from London, travelling through Scotland by train, steamer and carriage. Places visited include Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dunkeld, Blair Atholl, Inverness, Stirling and Iona. The journal includes pencil sketchess and pasted in printed illustrations.
Dates:
1854
'Journal of an expedition to Shetland in 1834' and 'Journal of a visit to & residence in the Shetland Islands in 1832', by Edward Charlton, both written up in 1843.
File
Identifier: MS.3037
Scope and Contents
The work describes the scenery, natural history, customs, history, superstitions, and antiquities of Zetland, and is illustrated by water-colours and pencil drawings by the author, T M Richardson (perhaps the Younger), George Richardson, and others.
An obituary notice of Edward Charlton has been inserted at the end.
Dates:
1832-1834.
Journal of Mrs Beecroft, describing a tour by her daughter and herself through France and Switzerland, setting out from Norwich., 1822.
Item
Identifier: MS.6338
Scope and Contents
The journal is illustrated by water-colour drawings of national costume (folios iv verso-v verso) and scenery (folios 93-94 verso, 143, 152 verso), pen-and-ink sketches of the ladies with their guides and mules (folios 60, 82 verso), maps and plans of mountain ranges (folios vi verso, 57, 138, 153), and an engraving of Dover Castle (folio 7). According to an index of illustrations (folio x verso) some drawings are missing. There are also lists of places visited in chronological order (folio...
Dates:
1822.
Journal of William Thomson, Deputy Commissary-General of Stores to the Forces, during a tour in France and Holland, apparently on a pleasure trip., 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.6334
Scope and Contents
The journal shows an interest in social conditions after the Restoration, in interior decoration and furnishing, and in paintings; he gives descriptions and lists of pictures in the Louvre and elsewhere, and has made sketch copies of a few (folios 30 verso-31, 82 verso). This volume is in two parts, consisting of Thomson's visit to Paris, and his tour in Holland; they are connected by the account of a journey through Belgium which includes a long description of the country surrounding...
Dates:
1818.
Journals kept by Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet, during tours in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy, 1783-1785, and in the country between Paris and Clermont, 1791.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6324-6332
Scope and Contents
In both series, Sir James Hall shows his interest in metallurgy, mining, geology, agriculture, and architecture, including ancient ruins; he often breaks his narrative of events with long descriptions of phenomena or processes which have made an impression on him. Many drawings of machinery, tools, architectural motifs, geological formations, etc., are scattered throughout the text.
Dates:
1783-1785, 1791.
Journals of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay's 'Travels in Germany and The Imperial Hereditary States, During the Years 1795, 1796, 1797' transcribed by C. Piesse, 1801
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13970/1-4
Scope and Contents
Illustrated journals of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay's travels in Germany and The Imperial Hereditary States, 1795, 1796 and 1797. When he set out on his first tour, Charles Stuart was travelling alone apart from a servant and aged 18.Charles Stuart compiled his journals not for 'amusement' but for the 'information' of his friends 'to recall the different fact witnessed, and the various situations in which I was placed'. They were compiled shortly after he made the...
Dates:
1801.
Journals of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet, of a tour in France, chiefly in Paris, from which a journey is made to Clermont and back before the return to Dunglass., 1791.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6329-6332
Scope and Contents
While in Paris, Sir James Hall attended meetings of the Assemblée Nationale and of the Jacobin Club almost every day, and he gives an account of the questions discussed there and of the atmosphere of tension among the people of Paris during the early stages of the Revolution. Hall seems to have been a friend of Condorcet, and names of other statesmen of the period such as Mirabeau, Robespierre, Danton, Guizot, and Sieyès are prominent in the journal. Each volume contains a brief guide to...
Dates:
1791.