Drawings. Visual works.
Found in 1220 Collections and/or Records:
Designs for book decorations, stage sets and garden buildings by William McLaren.
Includes a sketchbook, specimans of calligraphy and printed books designed or decorated by McLaren.
Designs for dust-jackets, photographs, and drawings for various publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., 1930-1934.
The contents include the following: (i) Designs for the dust-jackets of ‘Stained radiance’ and ‘The thirteenth disciple’, 1930-1931 (number l); (ii) Photographs and proofs for ‘The conquest of the Maya’, 1933 (number 4); (iii) Drawings by Charles Bannerman to illustrate the serialisation of ‘Cloud Howe’ in the ‘Mearns Leader’ and other newspapers, 1934 (number 9).
Designs for Musselburgh bridge by John Rennie., 1803.
Diaries, albums and photographs of the Campbell, Login and Maitland Mackgill Crichton familes.
Diaries, letters and miscellaneous papers, 1944-1989, of and relating to John Armstrong.
John Armstrong studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was a contemporary of Eduardo Paolozzi who is mentioned in his diaries. After leaving college he worked as an artist and displays manager, then went on to work for the DHSS, Register Generals Office and elsewhere in Edinburgh. He later ran his own business. He continued painting throughout his life and also wrote fiction inspired by his bohemian lifestyle.
Diaries of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to Orkney for the Parliamentary election of 1852, and to Argyll., 1852.
The volume includes notes on the lectures Professor Thomas Stewart Traill gave on Natural History at Edinburgh University during Professor Jamieson's illness, with transcripts of related correspondence (folio 81).
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Diary of Neil Munro., 1887-1916.
The entries are brief, but refer to Neil Munro’s career in journalism, his publications, travels and family life. Some drawings, photographs and other material have been inserted. Folios 1-2 contain autobiographical notes.
Diary of the South African campaign of 1900-1901 kept by Second Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Herbert George Sotheby of the 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
The diary, though silent on the larger issues, is interesting for its first-hand accounts of the raids in which the battalion took part. A list of the battalion's officers and a drawing of Colonel Plumer (later Viscount Plumer) are also included.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill., 1841-1842.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill., 11 August 1845-23 September 1845.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill., 24 September 1845-1846.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of a tour in England, with particular reference to visits to Oxford and London., August 1823.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of a trip to Holland., 1847.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of a trip to Wales and London., 1843.
The diary includes genealogical notes on the Sandbach family.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to Argyll and Liverpool in 1848, and to Fife, 1849., 1848-1849.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to Caithness, Yorkshire and London., 1849.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to London, Liverpool, and Linlithgow, 1844, and to Fife in 1845., 1844-1845.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to Orkney, London, and Liverpool., 1847.
Diary of Thomas Stewart Traill of trips to the Central Highlands and to Haddington., 1846.
Diary, XII, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh., March-May 1830.
The diary includes drawings of animals (folio 9).
Diary, XIX, of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh, containing an account of a sea-trip to the Irish coast., August-September 1831.
The diary contains drawings of cross-sections of islands visited on the Irish trip (folios 26 verso, 33 verso-34, 38 verso).