Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Browse Resources: 1 - 25 of 46

12 drawings of David Roberts made for his projected part-work "The Antiquities of Scotland".

 File
Identifier: Acc.11990
Scope and Contents

Nine of the drawings were etched for this set in extremely limited numbers.

Dates: 1831.

20 letters of David Roberts to Sir James Emerson Tennent and his wife.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11697
Scope and Contents

Several letters concern Near-Eastern travel and the Victorian art scene.

Dates: 1846-1864.

43 letters addressed to David Roberts.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11760
Scope and Contents

Addressed to Roberts in London, Spain, Egypt and India by correspondents in Scotland and Spain concerning artistic and social matters.

Dates: 1831-1843.

Circa 100 letters to David Wilkie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7972
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Sir Walter Scott and David Roberts.

Dates: 1806-1839.

Correspondence of David Roberts.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8729
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include David Ramsay Hay, Edward Finden and John G Kinnear.

Dates: 1828-1858.

Journal, 1851, of David Roberts recording a visit to Germany.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11672
Scope and Contents

Contains a few pages concerning a visit to Rome, 1853.

Dates: 1851-1853.

Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates: 1836-1863 and undated.

Letter of Alexander Nasmyth to David Roberts.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12447
Scope and Contents

The letter concerns a sketch of Niddry castle, the writer`s vignettes for the Waverley Novels, his children and the Reform Bill.

Dates: 1831.

Letter of David Ramsay Hay to David Roberts.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10970
Scope and Contents

Concerns artists and artistic matters and mentions the portrait of Roberts [by Robert Scott Lauder].

Dates: 1840.

Letter of David Ramsay Hay to David Roberts.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11381
Scope and Contents

Concerns personal and artistic matters.

Dates: 1845.

Letter of David Roberts.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11229
Scope and Contents

Concerns a proposed diorama of the Holy Land based on Roberts`s sketches.

Dates: 1852.

Letter of David Roberts.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11542
Scope and Contents

Concerns sending pictures to exhibition.

Dates: ? 1856.

Letter of David Roberts.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11635
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns arrangements for Edinburgh friends, including Mr and Mrs William Chambers, to visit Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Dates: 1847.

Letter of David Roberts to Alfred Elmore.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11670
Scope and Contents

Concerns Elmore`s election to the Royal Academy of Arts.

Dates: ? 1857.

Letter of David Roberts to David Cousin.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11694
Scope and Contents

Concerns the design of a monument or building in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1858.

Letter of David Roberts to George Grove.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11011
Scope and Contents

Concerns Grove`s travels in Palastine and Syria.

Dates: 1861.

Letter of David Roberts to Henry Bicknell.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8682
Scope and Contents

Concerning a drawing.

Dates: 1853.

Filtered By

  • Names: Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Letters. Correspondence. 41
Correspondence. 2
Egypt. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 30.0000. Latitude: 27.0000. 2
Spain. Europe. Nation. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 40.0000. 2
Travel journals 2
∨ more  
Names
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 4
Hay, David Ramsay, decorator, 1798-1866 3
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841: recipient 2
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
∨ more
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Elhanan, art collector, 1788-1861: recipient 1
Bright, William, correspondent of David Roberts, painter, fl 1835-1836: recipient 1
Cave, Sarah Otway-, Baroness Braye, née Cave, 1768-1862 1
Chambers, Harriet, wife of William, publisher, née Seddon, fl 1833-1847 1
Chambers, William, publisher, 1800-1883 1
Cooke, Edward William, artist, 1811-1880: recipient 1
Cousin, David, Superintendent of Public Works, Edinburgh, 1809-1878 1
Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, 1st Baronet, art patron, 1810-1869 1
Dulwich Picture Gallery 1
Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock, Knight, painter, 1793–1865: recipient 1
Elmore, Alfred, painter, 1815-1881 1
Finden, Edward Francis, engraver, 1791–1857: recipient 1
Ford, Richard, critic, 1796-1858: recipient 1
Grove, Sir George, Knight, writer on music, 1820-1900 1
Hamilton, Thomas, architect, 1784-1858. 1
Hancock, Charles, painter, 1802-1877 1
Hart, Solomon Alexander, painter, 1806-1881 1
Hay, David Ramsay, decorator, 1798-1866: recipient 1
Horst, Thomas Cooper Vander, correspondent of David Roberts, painter, fl 1840 1
Kinnear, John Gardiner (author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) 1
Maclise, Daniel, d 1870, painter 1
Macnee, Sir Daniel, Knight, portrait painter, 1806-1882 1
Nasmyth, Alexander, painter, 1758–1840 1
Pickersgill, Henry William, painter, 1782-1875: recipient 1
Playfair, William Henry, architect, 1790-1857 1
Prout, Samuel, artist, 1783-1852 1
Reynolds, John Hamilton, Poet and lawyer, 1796-1852: recipient 1
Richards, Henry J, correspondent of David Roberts, painter, fl 1830-1864: recipient 1
Rickman, Thomas, architect, 1776-1841 1
Royal Academy of Arts 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Shiels, William, painter, 1783-1857: recipient 1
Tennent, Laetitia, wife of Sir James Emerson, 1st Baronet, traveller, formerly Emerson, d 1883 1
Tennent, Sir James Emerson, 1st Baronet, traveller, formerly Emerson, 1804-1869 1
Turmeau, John, painter, 1776-1846: recipient 1
+ ∧ less