Sketches
Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:
Four scrapbooks of Admiral Lord Mark Kerr.
Contains watercolours and pen and pencil sketches, mostly grotesques and cartoons but with some landscape and architectural drawings.
‘Institutionum Chemicarum Pars Prima`; a treatise on chemistry in two parts, including comments on other writers on the subject.
Mention is made of Nicolas Lemery`s work, published in Paris, `hoc Anno 1713` (folio 10 verso). There are a few small pencil sketches of pieces of equipment, and the work is followed by an index.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
Journal of expeditions to castles and other locations mostly on the coast of Caithness and in Shetland, illustrated with sketches and with calligraphic flourishes, by Mary Russell.
Journal, probably of George Joseph Bell, the son of the advocate of that name.
Letter, 1870, of James Nasmyth to James Hodgkinson.
Includes sketch, 1849, of Nasmyth`s improvement for the reflecting telescope.
Letter of Alexander to James Ballantyne describing the last dinner of the writer with Sir Walter Scott.
Includes manuscript draft and cutting of letter of John Ballantyne on the same dinner with Scott, and a pencil and chalk study of Scott by John Ballantyne.
Letter of William Orpen to John Girdwood.
With a sketch of Orpen in military uniform.
Letters and artwork proposals, including sketches and drawings, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, with related drawings, designs and papers of Michael Harvey, letter cutter.
Letters and correspondence of Alexander Stuart Boyd to members of the Barr family, Woldingham, Surrey.
On social, artistic and literary matters, several of the documents illustrated with humorous sketches.
Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.
Logbook of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, the geologist, containing accounts of two journeys made by him when he was a youth of eighteen and nineteen.
Manuscript contributions to "The Peripatetic: a Quarterly Magazine"
Manuscript of an English work entitled `A Compendious explication of all coats of armes in apt termes of Blazon`, intended for the amateur, in two parts, Blazoning and Marshalling.
The text breaks off in the second part. The author refers to works by Nicholas Upton and Gerard Legh. There are several pen sketches and shields are drawn in trick.
Manuscript poems and sketches of Sir William Quiller Orchardson.
With associated photographs.
Manuscripts and corrected typescripts of twenty-four short stories, articles and sketches by John M Reid.
Manuscripts with translations from Sanskrit, folk tales and sketches.
Material of Sir James Balfour on the Irish nobility.
Notebook of Elizabeth Hume.
Containing poems by Hume and others, sketches, and journal of a trip to England and Wales.
Notes and sketches made on voyages from Jamaica to London and back.
Notes on astronomy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by John Erskine.
The notes consist of commentaries on Ptolomy`s ‘Almagest’ and descriptions of the rotations of the planets, with several sketches. There is also part of a lecture on biology (‘De Corpore Animato`, folio 79); some pages are missing at the end of the latter lecture.
Notes on the Romans, and on a Greek author, written by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, probably from the lectures of his Regent, Andrew Burnet, at Glasgow University.
The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.