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:
Papers of the Gall and Inglis families.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6437
Scope and Contents
Including music, drawings and notes.
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray., ? 1828-? 1863.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42572-42573
Papers relating to 'Raven seek thy brother', by Gavin Maxwell, containing typescript, correspondence, drawings, photocopies and photographs., [?Circa 1968], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/49-57
Papers relating to 'Ring of bright water', by Gavin Maxwell, containing manuscripts, typescripts, drawings and photographs., [?Circa 1960], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/20-32
Papers relating to tours and expeditions of James Wordie., 1865-1959.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-95
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1865-1959.
Pen and ink drawings of views in Edinburgh and vicinity.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9401
Scope and Contents
Possibly made for engraving.
Dates:
1826.
Pen and wash drawings of the processions at the opening of Parliament in 1685 (numbers 2-4), and at the funeral of the Duke of Rothes in 1681 (numbers 5-8).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.22
Scope and Contents
According to a note by Thomas Sommers, dated 1803 (number 1), they are by Roderick Chalmers who was appointed a Herald Painter in 1724. Sir Thomas Innes in `The Riding of Parliament’, pages 95-103, suggests that Chalmers was working from an earlier set of drawings, probably contemporary with the processions. The second drawing in the set of the Riding of Parliament (number 3) is an unfinished pencil sketch, made (according to Sommers`s note) in 1768 by Horace Walpole to replace a...
Dates:
Before 1769.
Pen drawings and Latin quotations illustrative of death, compiled in Flanders.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.33
Scope and Contents
This volume containing a collection of pen drawings, with mottoes and verse (chiefly extracts from the Roman poetry) emblematical of death, bears the following title ‘Admodum Reuerendo Patri Jacobo Stratio per Prouinciam Flandro-Belgicam Præposito Prouinciali Tranfactor in Religione vitæ fuæ suinquagefimum annum Deo Opt. Max. inter communes omnium acclamationes consecranti post placatam Mortam Suinquaginta de morte Emblematis Applaudebat Poësis Aldenardensis’.
Dates:
17th century.
Pen, ink and watercolour design of Sir Frank Mears for a "Civic Museum and Outlook Tower for an American City."
Item
Identifier: Acc.11024
Dates:
1923.
Pencil drawings of occupations in Malabar., ?4th quarter of 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.13815
Dates:
?4th quarter of 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
/
Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
/
Fair copies, drafts and other papers concerning 'Jadee Jathu’, an account of the castes in Malabar by Alexander Walker.
Pencil drawings of Robert Gibb chiefly of details of sixteenth-century costume with accompanying notes., 1871-1872.
File
Identifier: MS.10473
Photocopies of eight letters of Cecile Walton to Brenda Walton.
File
Identifier: Acc.6569
Scope and Contents
With sketches and drawings.
Dates:
circa 1905-circa 1910.
Photocopy of a drawing by Jessie M King of 7 Passage Moret, Paris.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8434
Dates:
Undated
Photograph of drawings of Arthur`s O`on, made by John Adair and annotated by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9439
Dates:
circa 1700.
Photographs and drawing of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/24-33
Photographs and drawings of Isobel V S Dunlop., 1911, 1955-1961, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9121/25-27
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1911, 1955-1961, undated.
Photographs and other material for illustrations for ‘The Isle of Arran’ by Robert McLellan, not all of which were published., [1968-1975.]
File
Identifier: MS.26425
Photographs of a miniature of Sir Stamford Raffles and of a drawing of Singapore., ?1823.
File
Identifier: MS.5406 (v), folios 22-23
Photographs of the leaves of the Glenquoich visitors' book containing the names of friends and relatives who visited the Ellices' estates at Invergarry during the late summer and autumn of each year from 1846 to 1863.
File
Identifier: MS.15197
Scope and Contents
The book appears to have belonged to Katherine Jane Ellice, first wife of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), who died in April 1864. Each visitor was asked to sign the book, adding the dates of arrival and departure, his profession, his object in coming and any remarks or complaints. Several took the opportunity to write in verses or poems or to make drawings, which range in size from thumbnail sketches to full-page drawings. Latterly, small photographs of many of the visitors...
Dates:
1846-1863.
Photographs of two drawings showing the north and south views of Dunbar church as it was before its demolition in 1819., [1819, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 225-226
Dates:
[1819, or before.]
Photographs, snapshots and drawings chiefly of, or concerning the work of, Helen Haldane., [?1945-?1967.]
File
Identifier: MS.20654
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Photographs of newts and fish used in experimental work at University College, London (cf MS.20649) between 1945 and 1956 (folio 1); (ii) Snapshots of Helen Haldane and colleagues taken in October 1960 at Gangapur (folio 98); (iii) Various snapshots taken in unidentified circumstances (folio 113); (iv) Photographs and drawings concerning Haldane’s paper on tortoises, a copy of the text of which is at MS 20653, folio 174 (folio 151).
Dates:
[?1945-?1967.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
/
Correspondence, notebooks, notes and papers of Helen Haldane, née Spurway, second wife of J B S Haldane.
/
Scientific notes and papers of Helen Haldane.
Plan of the River Clyde from the Sills to the Float Viaduct. Drawing number 1a. Parishes of Carstairs and Pettinain., 1848.
Item
Identifier: MS.27820
Plans and drawings of railway and mining machinery and installations in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, by David Angus.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7217
Dates:
circa 1880-1910.