Sketches
Found in 184 Collections and/or Records:
Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.
Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
Two letters of John Brown with a sketch entitled "Rab`s Surviving Friend".
Two letters of Thomas Faed.
One letter is illustrated with a sketch discussing his 1849 painting of Sir Walter Scott and his literary friends at Abbotsford.
Includes a sketch, with key, by John Faed of his picture of Shakespeare and his friends at the Mermaid Tavern.
Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.
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.
Volume containing watercolour sketches, photographs, maps and geological notes of John Francis Campbell, recording a visit he made to North America in the autumn of 1864., 1864.
The volumes reflect, in his detailed descriptions, watercolours and sketches, Campbell’s interest in people, art, science and sport. In the later journals, his interest in geology and meteorology predominates, with particular emphasis on the effects of glaciation observed in various countries.
The sketches usually occur in chronological sequence with notes below each giving the date, place and other additional information.
Volume entitled ‘Solar Spherical Scale for Sketching’, dated May 1881, Naples, containing a number of diagrams and sketches., 1881.
War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.
Accession includes:
1. sketchbook, 1943-1944,
2. an earlier volume of poetry written by Barclay,
3. Barlcay`s wartime record kept by his wife, Annie.
Watercolour sketch of Duntulm Castle, by Constance Gordon Cumming.
Drawn for an illustration of her "From the Hebrides to the Himalayas" (1876).