Illustrations. Layout features.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to pictures or diagrams that clarify or provide an example or visualization. They usually accompany a text; the term is most often used to refer to pictures in books or published journal. For works that explore a subject or are preliminary to a separate, more finalized work, use ""studies (visual works)""For paintings in manuscripts, use ""illuminations"" or ""miniatures (paintings)"" .
Found in 166 Collections and/or Records:
Marked proof engraving, "Scene at a sleeping-place in Angola" : an illustration for "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" by David Livingstone., ? 1856-? 1857.
Item
Identifier: MS.42434
Scope and Contents
The proof has been annotated by David Livingstone and by John Murray III. The engraving was made from a sketch by Captain Henry Need.
The illustration was included in "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", facing page 380.
Dates:
? 1856-? 1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning David Livingstone.
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Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
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Manuscript, "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", by David Livingstone; with related proofs.
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Assorted proofs for "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" by David Livingstone.
Material for a household dictionary in Spanish and English, compiled by Ruthven Todd and Anne McGuire., 1963-1965, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26841-26842
Dates:
1963-1965, undated.
Microfilm of grangerized copy of 'Reliques of Robert Burns' by R H Cromek, 4th edition, (London, 1817), with correspondence of Cadell and Davies, James Currie, John McCreery, Gilbert Burns, R H Cromek, William Roscoe, and others., [1805-1819.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1020
Microfilm of heraldic material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.27
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Collection of illuminate arms’, 1794, by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms. (Adv.MS.31.4.1-2);
‘Original institutions of the princely orders of collars’ by Sir William Segar, 1603, or after (Adv.MS.31.4.5);Copies by John Wither, 1623, of English rolls of arms, mostly from ‘an auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century-1794.
Microfilm of manuscript of 'Regole della fortificatione' by Giulio Savorgnano, with many illustrations.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1383
Dates:
16th century.
Microfilms of the ‘Earnock manuscripts’ containing correspondence and papers, chiefly concerning the publication of James Currie’s 'Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life', 1st-8th editions.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1019-1020
Dates:
[1797-1819.]
Minute book covering general and special meetings of the Edinburgh Skating Club and latterly giving some seasonal reports., 1784-1888.
Item
Identifier: MS.24641
Scope and Contents
A few newspaper cuttings and menus for Club Dinners have been pasted in to the minute book (folios 1-96). Additional material includes occasional verses, further menus and illustrations, and an Appendix listing the membership between 1778-1939 (folios 103-107), Directions for the Club Officer (folios 109-110), an Inventory of Club property (folios 111-112), Directions for the Watchmen, (folios 112-113), and Club Rules (folio 114).
Dates:
1784-1888.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.
File
Identifier: MS.3830
Scope and Contents
Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).
Dates:
17th century.
Miscellaneous papers concerning David Livingstone., 1863-1982.
File
Identifier: MS.42442
Scope and Contents
Folio 1 : picture postcard of the tombstone of David Livingstone in Westminster Abbey;folio 2-3 : prospectus issued by John Murray, publishers, advertising works by or concerning Livingstone;folio 4 : cutting from "The [?Standard]", no. 326 : “Last letter of Dr. Livingstone”;folio 5 : cutting, supplied through Durrant’s Press Cuttings, from ‘The Standard’, 21st October 1912 : "A Livingstone relic. An inkless letter. Written on a copy of ‘The...
Dates:
1863-1982.
Miscellaneous papers of Florence Marian McNeill including testimonials, newspaper cuttings about contemporary women authors, and other material., 1899-1961, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26256
Dates:
1899-1961, undated.
Miscellaneous small items of John Francis Campbell., 1857-1883, and undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.6a-g
Dates:
1857-1883, and undated.
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.
Miscellaneous volume containing book-illustrations, photographs of bindings, press- and magazine-cuttings, and photographs of Phoebe Anna Traquair and her work, with family photographs., [1890-1948.]
File
Identifier: MS.8125
Dates:
[1890-1948.]
Notebook from Perth Academy containing material on arithmetic, book-keeping, trigonometry and navigation., 1828.
Item
Identifier: MS.14293
Dates:
1828.
Notebook from Perth Academy containing material on geometry, trigonometry, mensuration, fortification and geography., 1828.
Item
Identifier: MS.14292
Dates:
1828.
Notebook from Perth Academy containing problems in mensuration, surveying and levelling (with examples from the North and South Inch at Perth) and gauging.
Item
Identifier: MS.14291
Scope and Contents
There are illustrations in pen and wash and water-colours.
Dates:
Late 18th-century.
Notebook of W S Graham containing drafts of poems, a radio play, notes and illustrations.
File
Identifier: Acc.12979
Dates:
1942-1973.
Notebooks from Perth Academy.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14292-14293
Scope and Contents
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1828
Notebooks of Professor Thomas Stewart Traill relating to Orkney, with illustrated accounts of Orcadian history and geography., 1833-1838.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19396-19398
Notes for ‘The other traveller’ by Nancy Brysson Morrison., 1954-1955.
File
Identifier: MS.27304
Scope and Contents
Several postcards and illustrations of hotels and scenery in the Highlands have been inserted.
Dates:
1954-1955.
'On Monograms' by John Sliegh, criticizing John E Hodgkin, 'Monograms'., Late 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2930
Scope and Contents
The volume contains monograms devised by John Sliegh, postcards written by him, 1871-1874, a notice of him by Miss Hipkins (folio iii), and sketches of him by John A Hipkins (folio 11).
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Orders regarding naval signals by flag, gun, light, bell, drum, and musket, supplementary to those given in general printed sailing and fighting instructions., 1760-1761.
Item
Identifier: MS.3163
Scope and Contents
A printed book with blank spaces for the insertion of the signals ordered by a particular command. Copy issued by Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, to the Honourable Charles Napier, commanding H M S Cygnet, 1760-1761, with the blanks filled up in manuscript, manuscript instructions pasted in, and coloured illustrations in the margin.
Dates:
1760-1761.
Original drawings by Alasdair Gray.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10191
Scope and Contents
Includes artwork for his novels and collections of short stories.
Dates:
circa 1975-1987.
Page proofs of the introductory pages to "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa"; with two impressions from a ?lithograph depicting a Bechuana reed dance., 1857.
File
Identifier: MS.42430
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-4 : proofs of the title-page, preface, contents and list of illustrations. The title-page differs minutely from the 1857 edition with index. Folios 5-6 : two impressions from a ?lithograph depicting a Bechuana reed dance. One copy of the lithograph (folio 5) has at its foot a manuscript note, "Bechuana reed dance by moonlight". It also differs in tone from the other copy (folio 6). The image depicted in the lithograph differs...
Dates:
1857.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning David Livingstone.
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Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait.
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Manuscript, "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", by David Livingstone; with related proofs.
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Assorted proofs for "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" by David Livingstone.
Papers and art work of Angela Lemaire, artist and engraver.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12221
Dates:
1962-2003.