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Sketchbook of `Pencil sketches to commemorate my journey to Scotland in the summer and autumn of 1846.`
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Identifier: Acc.13646
Scope and Contents
Julius Jacob the Elder (1811-1882) was a German Jewish artist born in Berlin who lived in London between 1844 and 1855. He is known both for his landscapes and society portraits.The sketchbook contains more than 150 pencil sketches of a tour in Scotland from August 1846 to February 1847. Almost all the sketches are dated and identifed. The earliest sketch is of the Isle of Arran. He then moved on to Greenock, Loch Long, Loch Lomond, Inverary, Loch Awe, Fingal`s Cave and Staffa,...
Dates:
1846-1847
Sketches of Edinburgh and environs by the Rev William Paget.
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Identifier: Acc.12209
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches illustrating the great fire of Edinburgh in November 1824.
Dates:
1824.
Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.
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Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents
Kept during a visit to Edinburgh and the Borders.
With notes and comments by the transcriber John S B Pratt Junior, undated
photocopy of a charcoal sketch, circa 1838, of Dr Boyd
biographical note, 1882.
Dates:
1831-1882.