Drawings. Visual works.
Found in 192 Collections and/or Records:
‘Beginning and the end of the Lewis Chemical Works', a detailed account written by D Morison, former foreman of the plant, of its operation from 1857 to 1874.
Bible, written in France.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.
The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.
"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.
With cards, drawings and photographs.
Collection of original drawings by Sir Robert Sibbald, of fish, birds, plants, etc.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, etc., chiefly by James Nasmyth, the engineer, with several by his father Alexander Nasmyth and his brother and sister Patrick and Jane, and some collected by him.
Colour transparencies, 2006, of artworks by Alasdair Gray, 1950s-2005.
Tansparencies of paintings and drawings by Alasdair Gray, many of which were collected and annotated in this collection to be scanned for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).
Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Composite volume consisting of several commonplace books of William Thoirs of Muiresk, born 1666, covering the years 1705-1724, but also containing earlier material.
Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.
There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.
Correspondence and papers of Ruari McLean with Cynthia and David Pettiward.
Concerning McLean`s introduction to "The Last Cream Bun" (London, 1984) with drawings by Roger Pettiward, pseudonym Paul Crum.
Correspondence and proof-sheets of James J Guthrie (1874-1952), the artist and printer who established the Pear Tree Press.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Designs for book decorations, stage sets and garden buildings by William McLaren.
Includes a sketchbook, specimans of calligraphy and printed books designed or decorated by McLaren.
Diaries, albums and photographs of the Campbell, Login and Maitland Mackgill Crichton familes.
Diaries, letters and miscellaneous papers, 1944-1989, of and relating to John Armstrong.
John Armstrong studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was a contemporary of Eduardo Paolozzi who is mentioned in his diaries. After leaving college he worked as an artist and displays manager, then went on to work for the DHSS, Register Generals Office and elsewhere in Edinburgh. He later ran his own business. He continued painting throughout his life and also wrote fiction inspired by his bohemian lifestyle.
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Diary of the South African campaign of 1900-1901 kept by Second Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Herbert George Sotheby of the 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
The diary, though silent on the larger issues, is interesting for its first-hand accounts of the raids in which the battalion took part. A list of the battalion's officers and a drawing of Colonel Plumer (later Viscount Plumer) are also included.