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Sketches

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

Poem of John MacTaggart.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13658
Scope and Contents

Poem by John MacTaggart, brother of the painter William MacTaggart, on unrequited love.

A sketch of an old man with a lantern marked `Uncle Willie` is attached on the sheet.

Dates: 1878.

Portfolio of W A Hall, apprentice cartographer at John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11281
Scope and Contents

Includes art, calligraphy and illustrating stages of map production.

Dates: 1938-1946.

"Prayers and Religious Meditations", 1733-1736.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6062
Scope and Contents

With engineering notes and sketches, circa 1824, loosely inserted.

Dates: 1733-1736, circa 1824.

Records of the Scots Club, London.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9943
Scope and Contents

Includes:

four minute books, 1911-1930, 1936-1938

sketches, including one by James McBey

ten letters of J M Barrie, and two of Viscount Haldane

a cartoon and a photograh, 1911, depicting members

two letters, 1961, of James Bone, concerning relics of the Club.

Dates: 1911-1961.

Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates: 13th century-17th century.

Shooting diary kept at Lude House, Blair Atholl.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7051
Scope and Contents

Including notes and sketches.

Dates: 1883-1884.

Six albums of pen and watercolour sketches by H G M Kirby depicting a history of his sporting life and his friends.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12786
Scope and Contents

Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.

Dates: circa 1890-1919.

Sketch, 1831, by David Roberts of his design for a new drop scene for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10170
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1863, of Roberts to a Mrs Jones.

Dates: 1831-1863.

Sketch and description, by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, of an alleged "antiquity" from the Trinity College Church, Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12048
Scope and Contents

The drawing was presented as a joke by Sharpe to David Laing.

Dates: circa 1825-1850.

Sketchbook of Christopher Norton, business partner of James Byres, 1764-1765.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11873
Scope and Contents

Includes a note and copy-letterbook of Norton, 1788-1794.

Dates: 1764-1794.

Sketchbook of `Pencil sketches to commemorate my journey to Scotland in the summer and autumn of 1846.`

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13646
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,...
Dates: 1846-1847

Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (1950).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13627
Scope and Contents

Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (London: Jonathan Cape, 1950), bound in an album with 4 letters, 1949-1950, of Andrew Young and an undated commentary on the work by Joan Hassall.

Dates: 1938-1950.

Sketches of Edinburgh and environs by the Rev William Paget.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12209
Scope and Contents

Includes sketches illustrating the great fire of Edinburgh in November 1824.

Dates: 1824.

Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12866
Scope and Contents

Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.

Dates: circa 1914-1946.

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.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.16
Scope and Contents A. (i) 'Macer Floridus, de viribus [so in title, 'virtutibus' in explicit] herbarum' by Odo of Meung(?). There are marginal headings throughout and two glosses on folio 1. A slightly later hand has added English equivalents of the plant-names (and also started to list them on folio 93 verso). A contents-list in a court-hand of the 13th century is on folio 39 verso. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Liber de virtutibus lapidum’, i.e. 'De lapidibus' by Marbod. (Folio 40.)(iii) Medical...
Dates: 12th century.

Two letters of Thomas Faed.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11362
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1849-1900.

Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1831-1882.