Sketches.
Found in 342 Collections and/or Records:
Sketch by Colonel Mikailovitch, commander of the artillery of the Second Serbian Army, illustrating the disposition of guns and troops for an attack on the Bulgarian front.
The attack took place at 0535 on 15 September 1918 and was the first break-through on the Bulgarian front.
The sketch was made for the information of the 4.7 inch gun section of the 84th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, British Army.
Sketch map showing locations of various conferences organised by the Scottish Association for Mental Health., Circa 1972-1973.
Sketch-plans relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle., 1883-1893, undated.
Sketchbook of A E Borthwick containing chiefly pencil sketches and rough watercolours of Scottish landscapes., 1902.
Sketches and drawings by various members of the Minto family., [Circa 1777]-1843, undated.
Sketches and notes of Arthur Geddes for a proposed Zoological park, probably at Lucknow, India., 1924, undated.
Sketches by A E Borthwick and Robert Gibb, with other visual materials., 19th century-1964, undated.
Sketches, drawings and other visual material., [1935-2006].
Sketches of Chinese scenes, chiefly in pencil, by Walter George Dickson, Doctor of Medicine, Edinburgh (died 1894), for many years a medical practitioner in Canton, author of ‘Japan' and 'Gleanings from Japan’.
Sketches of Scottish scenery, chiefly in pencil, by Jean Goldie of Summerhill, author of ‘Familiar recollections and national progress’.
Information about the artist was supplied by the donors. Contains 74 sketches mounted on sheets containing one to four sketches.
Sketches of the crypt of Rosslyn Chapel, showing the working drawings., 19th century.
Small pocket-book of Lord Lynedoch of pencil notes and sketches, undated, some illegible, on fortifications., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Speeches delivered by Lord Rutherfurd, pamphlets containing obituary tributes to various friends, 1841-1859, and miscellaneous papers and pamphlets, 1746-1930, undated., 1746-1930, undated.
'System of water-colour painting', 17th edition (London, 1858), by Aaron Penley, used by James Augustus Grant on his African expedition., 1858.
On the front cover are James Augustus Grant's signature and the note 'This book was my guide through Africa. J.A. Grant'; on a leaf tipped in after page [ii] are pencil and watercolour sketches; on page 64 is a pencil sketch; and on pages 7 and 10 of the advertisements at the back are pencil notes.
‘Tales from the people of Sutherland’: stories, beliefs, riddles, etc., collected by Miss Charlotte Louisa Dempster., 1859.
The volume contains entries by various writers, including John F Campbell of Islay, by whom there is an index (folio 2) and a sketch (folio 184).
'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.
The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.
'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.
Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.
There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.
Thirty-seven pen and pencil drawings, in some cases with further sketches on the reverse side, by John Harden., 1803-1810.
The drawings are nearly all figure-groups executed either at Queen Street, Edinburgh, or at Brathay Hall, Windermere. The majority depict family gatherings, often caught playing cards or chess, sometimes in the company of friends like the Learmonths in Edinburgh or the Lloyds at Brathay Hall (see MS.8872). In most cases, a brief description, based on information supplied by the Clay family, has been added.
'Tom: 2d of the juvenile poetic works of John Black’, containing drafts of verse dramas and other poems including fragments of ‘The Falls of Clyde, or the fairies’ by John Black, minister of Coylton.
According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.