Sketches.
Found in 342 Collections and/or Records:
Collections of drawings by Katherine Jane Ellice., 1844-1870, undated.
Collections of drawings consisting chiefly of watercolour and pencil sketches., 1844-1870, undated.
Commonplace book of Alexander Keith of Ravelston, (died 1751), but written in more than one hand., 1684-?1688.
Commonplace-book of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1647-1841.
Commonplace book (formerly a rental-book, 1785-1786), dated 1817 and 1841 (see inside front cover and folio 96), containing sketches of Hawthornden and Roslin, a manuscript copy of the Reverend John Frazer, ‘Δεντεροσκοπία’ (Edinburgh, 1707), extracts from Humbie Kirk Session Book, 1647-1676, in Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's autograph, letters, etc.
Copies of letters, 1798, 1838, of George Thomson; with sketches and engravings, undated, of David Allan and others., 1798-1838, undated.
Correspondence and newspaper-cuttings relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle., 1883-1888, undated.
Correspondence and newspaper-cuttings relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle., 1886-1887, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Admiral of the Fleet, the Honourable Sir Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot., 1855-1859, 1863, 1890.
Includes navigational sketches and sailing plans and some papers of Admiral Elliot, 1863-1890 (folio 416).
Correspondence and papers of and concerning James Walter Buchan., 1901-1965, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Wilkie, Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, together with some sketches and engravings from his paintings.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.
Correspondence, design sketches and sample work, relating to James Thin logo and corporate image on letterheads, bags, bookmarks, badges and other material., 1960-2004.
Correspondence of John Sharpe of Hoddam, Sheriff-clerk of Dumfries, on business affairs, with Sir Robert Grierson of Lag, Baronet (the Laird of Lag of Covenanting tradition), and Sir Patrick Maxwell, 1st Baronet of Springkell, with a few deeds., 1652-1736, undated.
The manuscript, titled 'Papers and letters of Lag and Sir P Maxwell', are bound with notes on the Laird of Lag and Maxwell, and a sketch of John Sharpe’s house in Dumfries, by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, to whom the manuscript once belonged.
Correspondence of various members of the Brown family., 1841-1850.
Correspondence of various members of the Halkett family, with related material., 1847-1863.
Correspondence, papers, and diagrams of John Rennie concerning mills, chiefly for sugar, for Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Demerara (Guyana)., 1805-1813.
Correspondence, sketch-plans, and newspaper-cuttings relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle.
The undertaking was financed by William Nelson the publisher, and the architect was Hippolyte Blanc, to whom most of the letters are addressed.
Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.
Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.
Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.
Correspondence, syllabuses, examination time-tables, and other material concerning Durham School and the attendance there of at least the elder son of Alexander Walker, William Stuart Walker, in 1822., [?1822.]
The papers contain some interesting examples of juvenile handwriting and sketching.
Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Dairy of Thomas Stewart Traill., August-September 1844.
Diaries, 1832-1865, chiefly of Colonel James Halkett (1822-1870), Coldstream Guards, son of Hugh, Baron von Halkett, describing his service in Britain, Mauritius, India and the Crimea; with correspondence and related material, 1847-1863, concerning several other members of the Halkett family.
James Halkett was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Mauritius, Sir William Gomm, from 1842 to 1847, and to the Commander-in-Chief of India from 1850 to 1854. He was severely wounded in action in November 1854 and the diary for that year gives particular accounts of the battles he witnessed during the Crimean War.
Diaries of Colonel James Halkett, several of which contain rough ink sketches., 1840-1865.
Diaries of John Chisholm, Kings Counsel; and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
John Chisholm, from Perth, studied at Edinburgh and Leipzig, and was admitted advocate in 1881. He stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative at the elections of 1885 and 1892. He took silk in 1904 and was appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1905. He married in 1892, and died in 1929.