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Sketches

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 184 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Agnes Miller Parker.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11238
Scope and Contents

Includes sketches, proofs, engravings for book illustrations and 560 letters, mostly concerning her engravings.

Dates: 1913-1972 and undated.

Papers of Alexander Fraser Tytler.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11737/1-8
Scope and Contents

Includes commonplace books, diaries, books of etchings, sketchbooks and a manuscript "Remembrances of Woodhouselee".

Dates: Late 18th century-early 19th century.

Papers of and concerning David Livingstone., ? 1852-1982.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42420-42442
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: ? 1852-1982.

Papers of and concerning Joseph Hislop.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7080
Scope and Contents

Including notes, sketches, typescripts of broadcast talks, photographs, correspondence, press cuttings and concert and opera programmes.

Dates: 1900-1975.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9201
Scope and Contents

Includes poems, beginning of a novel, two plays, sketches of books, two diaries and paper, "The African Solution".

Dates: circa 1916-circa 1986.

Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11310
Scope and Contents

Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.

Dates: 1899-1953 and undated.

Papers of Ronald Jay

 Fonds
Identifier: MI.4/22

Papers of Stewart Sim.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11125
Scope and Contents

Includes architectural drawings, sketches, watercolours and photographs.

Dates: 1913-circa 1975.

Papers of William Stuart Henry.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6177
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, sketches, poems, and correspondence concerning his work.

Dates: circa 1942-1967.

Papers relating to the military service of Lieutenant Walter R Cuthbert, RFA, in Mesopotamia and India.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12808
Scope and Contents

Includes a list of photographs taken in Mesopotamia, papers connected with Cuthbert`s post-war claims for arrears of pay and allowances, a receipt from British Empire Union and copies of sketches by Mrs Cuthbert (Wendy Wood) made during her husband`s RFA training.

Dates: 1918-1919.

Pen and wash drawings of the processions at the opening of Parliament in 1685 (numbers 2-4), and at the funeral of the Duke of Rothes in 1681 (numbers 5-8).

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.22
Scope and Contents According to a note by Thomas Sommers, dated 1803 (number 1), they are by Roderick Chalmers who was appointed a Herald Painter in 1724. Sir Thomas Innes in `The Riding of Parliament’, pages 95-103, suggests that Chalmers was working from an earlier set of drawings, probably contemporary with the processions. The second drawing in the set of the Riding of Parliament (number 3) is an unfinished pencil sketch, made (according to Sommers`s note) in 1768 by Horace Walpole to replace a...
Dates: Before 1769.

Pencil and ink sketches by Wendy Wood, Scottish Nationalist, of children performing at concerts of the Waddell School of Music, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12877
Scope and Contents

Includes press cutting and printed "Memories of the Waddell School of Music" (1988).

Dates: 1969-1977.

Personal papers of William Crosbie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13367
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1933-1972, of the artist William Crosbie (1915-1999), with related printed material, circa 1943-1990. This small collection of material was apparently cleared from his studio at 12 Ruskin Lane, Glasgow, many years after his death.

Dates: 1933-1972.