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Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13650
Scope and Contents
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Dates:
1828-1847, undated.
Legal papers concerning property in Newhaven and Leith belonging to Marion Evanson and her Paterson descendants.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6978
Dates:
1733-1848.
Pocketbook of Sir John Werden, Diplomat and Politician.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13144
Dates:
1679-1680.
Sketchbook of Thomas Henry Graham of views recording a tour in Scotland and northern England
Item
Identifier: Acc.13510
Scope and Contents
Thomas Henry Graham`s sketchbook provides a visual record of a tour in Scotland of 1812. The sketchbook opens with several drawings of views of and near to his home Edmond Castle, in Cumbria. Graham travelled to Scotland via Northumberland and there are drawings of Newcastle, Alnwick, Belford Castle, Bamburgh Castle and the Farne Islands. Drawings in Scotland include views of Dunbar, Edinburgh, the firth of Forth, Holyrood House, Leith Harbour, Glasgow, Dumbarton Castle, the Cairndow Inn at...
Dates:
1812