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:
Juvenilia of members of the Blythe family., Circa 1900-1917.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11021/202-216
Dates:
Circa 1900-1917.
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates:
1941-2022
Large scale plans and diagrams of Patrick Geddes., Late 19th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10656
Scope and Contents
The items are for the most part undated. They chiefly consist of sociological diagrams of the 'Thinking machine' type, with several biological and town-planning diagrams and drawings. Also included is a watercolour sketch plan of the Paris Exhibition of 1900 (no. 44), designs for New Crosby Hall, Chelsea (nos. 51-53), and plans for properties at Roseburn Cliff and Mount Tabor.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Letter and two geological drawings of Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh, by James Hall.
File
Identifier: Acc.12165
Dates:
1825.
Letter of Ebenezer Henderson to his uncle, the Reverend Ebenezer Henderson, with two astronomical drawings.
File
Identifier: Acc.6097
Dates:
1842.
Letter of Elizabeth Bacon Custer to her `Dear Sister` describing a visit to Scotland as the guest of Andrew Carnegie at Cluny Castle. With a drawing of highland dancing `July 4th 1891, at Cluny Castle`.
File
Identifier: Acc.13382
Dates:
1891
Letter of Robert Burns to Andrew Fyfe, surgeon in Edinburgh, with an apparently contemporary drawing of Burns by Miss Bird, 'a lady artist'.
File
Identifier: MS.8486
Dates:
?1787.
Letter of Robert Moffat concerning, and with drawings of, African war axes., 1877.
Item
Identifier: MS.20311, folios 68-70
Letter of Walter Scott, illustrated with pen and wash drawings of Abbotsford and Melrose Abbey by Hugh William Williams.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12583
Dates:
1823.
Letters and artwork proposals, including sketches and drawings, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, with related drawings, designs and papers of Michael Harvey, letter cutter.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13394
Scope and Contents
A substantial archive of letters, papers, drawings, designs and ephemera of Ian Hamilton Finlay, gathered by one of his major collaborators, the lettering artist and typographer Michael Harvey. The collection comprises over 200 letters, notes, proposals and designs of Ian Hamilton Finlay, and a quantity of material including drawings and plans by Michael Harvey created in response to Finlay`s proposals, with some copies of Harvey’s letters. Accompanying papers include a number of letters of...
Dates:
1970-2006
Letters and drawings bearing on the hoax practised on Augustine Birrell, by Charles Geake and others, 1894, with a relevant letter, 1933, inserted in ‘The strange history of Tobias Boffin, B.A. (Lond.)’ (London, 1894).
File
Identifier: MS.1657 [F.5.d.14]
Dates:
1894, 1933.
Letters and drawings collected by William Lee Ferguson., 1784-1888, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5174
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Letters of Professor Adam Ferguson, Sir David Brewster, Sir Joseph Paxton, James Fergusson, the writer on architecture, and others, 1784-1888, undated (folio 1);
(ii) Letters of Ford Madox Brown, 1861-1885, undated (folio 31);
(iii) Drawings of stones at Isle and Dunscore, Dumfriesshire, carved with the Fergusson arms, undated (folio 52).
Dates:
1784-1888, undated.
Letters and papers of Robin Spark to his mother, Muriel Spark.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11620
Scope and Contents
Includes cards and juvenile drawings, copies of Muriel Spark`s replies and letters of her mother to her.
Dates:
1943-1996.
Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor., 1825-1869.
Series
Identifier: MSS.4895-4934
Letters and postcards, 1970-1980 and undated, of W.S. Graham to William Featherston, with a few letters of Nessie Graham and others; typescript, carbon typescript and photocopied typescript of draft sections of long poems, 1958 and undated, including `The Dark Dialogues` and `With the Dulle Griet in Canada`; silk screen print portrait of W.S. Graham by William Featherston; and CD and audio-cassette of BBC radio broadcast by W.S. Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13163
Scope and Contents
William Featherston, a Canadian artist, lived and worked in Cornwall during the 1960s. During this period he became a friend of Sydney and Nessie Graham. Featherston returned to Canada in 1971, and the friends corresponded over the next decade. The letters and cards are wide-ranging, intensely personal, and often enriched with Graham`s drawings and doodles. The sections of typescript poetry (some of it carbon typescript and photocopies) include draft passages from `The Dark Dialogues` and...
Dates:
1958, 1970-1980, and undated.
Letters, cards and drawings of W. S. Graham to Margaret "Biddy" Crozier and her daughters; with related printed material.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13531
Scope and Contents
Letters, cards and drawings, 1950-1984 and undated, of William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) to Margaret ‘Biddy’ Crozier and her daughters, Blake and Johanna (`Jo`); with accompanying printed matter.Biddy Crozier occasionally wrote to poets whose work she admired, and this sometimes led to close and supportive friendships. In the words of her daughter Jo, often the poets ‘were delighted to know an intelligent woman with a spare bed in London’. A long-lasting friendship developed...
Dates:
1950-1984 and undated.
Letters, engravings and drawings concerning Robert Burns., 1788-1889, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15953
Scope and Contents
Included is a letter of Robert Burns to Richard Brown (‘The letters of Robert Burns’, volume I, page 211), and fragments of a vocabulary in his hand.There is a series of ten watercolour and wash drawings by David Allan illustrating poems of Burns, one of which was engraved for ‘An introduction to the history of poetry in Scotland’ by Alexander Campbell (Edinburgh, 1798). Also included are letters from Walter Scott and Allan Cunningham on an edition of poems of Burns, and George...
Dates:
1788-1889, undated.
Letters, engravings and drawings concerning Robert Burns; with index., 1788-1889, 1914, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15953-15954
Letters, newspaper-cuttings, and notes found loose in MSS.1813-1814: Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1815
Scope and Contents
The material is chiefly of later date than 1813.
References to the items have been made at the appropriate places in MSS.1813-1814.
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
Letters of Norman McLaren to Florence Russell, including painted and etched films; with papers collected by Florence Russell, comprising press cuttings, a sound recording, articles and printed material, concerning the work of Norman McLaren.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5649/1-26
Dates:
1934-1976, undated.
Letters of Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, to Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1773-1792, ?1860, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25297
Scope and Contents
With notes on Lord Hailes' works, undated, and a drawing of Richard Hurd, ?1860.
Dates:
1773-1792, ?1860, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Correspondence of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Correspondence of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes with various named individuals.
Letters of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik., 1739-1742.
Series
Identifier: MS.23638, folios 56-61
Scope and Contents
Letters to William Stukeley and George Clerk of Penicuik.
Dates:
1739-1742.
Letters of various correspondents to John Murray, publishers, concerning the "Murray Handbooks for Travellers"., 1834-1899, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.42613
Scope and Contents
The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent surname. Letters of multiple or unidentified correspondents have been placed at the end of the sequence.Letters, 1842, 1845-1846. of Sir George Biddell Airy to John Murray II and John Murray III: folios 1-9;Letter, 1843, of Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to John Murray III: folios 10-11;Letter, 1847, of George Augustus Frederic Cavendish-Bentinck to John Murray III: folios 12-13;...
Dates:
1834-1899, undated.
Letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Sylvia Thompson; with photographs and artwork.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13264
Scope and Contents
Sylvia Thompson became friendly with the Grahams in the 1980s. From a nursing background, she became a great source of practical help to the couple during W S Graham`s last years, which were dogged by ill-health. The great affection in which she was held by the Grahams is evident in the letters, and in the various gifts of photographs and drawings.
Dates:
1982-1987.
Letters of William Lockhart with a pen and ink drawing relating to the San Jacinto sugar plantation in Peru.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13560
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of fifteen letters mostly from William Lockhart, administrator of San Jacinto sugar plantation in Peru from 1876 to 1882, with some from other correspondents and a pen and ink drawing showing the plantation works.
Most of the letters are addressed to his Robert Lockhart in Dunoon. The correspondence deals with the daily affairs of the plantation, Peruvian politics and general family matters.
Dates:
c. 1880s-1904