Scope and Contents This album consists largely watercolours of places visited in Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Devon and Cornwall between 1910 and 1924. Many are signed Florrie Bankes, or F.B. Places depicted include Loch Laggan, Loch Achray, Loch Katrine, Ackergill Tower, Balmacarra, the castle of Eilean Donan and Loch Duich, Taynuilt, Loch Etive, Ben Cruachan, Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel, the road to Mallaig, Gruinard, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Lochaillort, Loch Feochan.The album also includes a number of...

Scope and Contents In August 1893, Madeline Halkett, together with her father Sir Peter Arthur Halkett, her cousin Alice Hill and uncle Colonel Francis Hill from Dover, set out by carriage from Pitfirrane House for a week`s tour to the Trossachs. Their route took them from Bridge of Allan to Dunblane, Callander, Aberfoyle, Loch Katrine and the Lake of Menteith. The journal is written humorously in verse and delightfully illustrated with drawings of the party, their carriage, grooms and horses as...

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The journal describes a visit to Scotland in the autumn of 1819 made by Elizabeth Susannah Graham and her daughter Eliza Maria Graham. The tour includes lively descriptions of visits to New Lanark, Glasgow, a steam boat trip on Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, the Caledonian Canal, Inverary, Staffa and Oban. The tour ends with a visit to Edinburgh and the journal includes descriptions of pictures viewed at the premises of Alexander Nasmyith and Henry Raeburn.

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,...

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64 watercolours, mainly landscapes, painted on tours of Scotland (1871) and North Wales (1876). Also 16 small watercolours of Charles Philips Trevelyn. Mary Frances Wicksteed was governess to the Philips and Trevelyan families.