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Sketches

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 102 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 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.

Photocopies of articles and press cuttings concerning Braehead School, Buckhaven.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12295
Scope and Contents

Includes sketches and ephemera of the school.

Dates: 1964-2001.

Photocopies of eight letters of Cecile Walton to Brenda Walton.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6569
Scope and Contents

With sketches and drawings.

Dates: circa 1905-circa 1910.

Photocopies of sketches by John Behan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8457
Scope and Contents

Made at the opening of the "Broadsheet" exhibition at National Library of Scotland on 5 February 1983.

Dates: 1983.

Plan of the estate of Freefield, Aberdeenshire, belonging to Alexander Leith, by John Hutchison.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7755
Scope and Contents

Including various measurements and statistics concerning the estate, and a sketch of the south east prospect of Freefield House in 1756.

Dates: 1736-1756.