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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to pictures or diagrams that clarify or provide an example or visualization. They usually accompany a text; the term is most often used to refer to pictures in books or published journal. For works that explore a subject or are preliminary to a separate, more finalized work, use ""studies (visual works)""For paintings in manuscripts, use ""illuminations"" or ""miniatures (paintings)"" .

Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

'Account of various Hindoo deities', which contains some illustrative matter., 1806.

 Item
Identifier: MS.13903
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates: 1806.

Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1789-1821.

 File
Identifier: MS.4889
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of a pamphlet entitled ‘Ten minutes of reflection on the late events in France. Recommended by a plain man to his fellow citizens’ (Woodbridge, 1793). (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1803, of two apparently unpublished poetical letters, 'The new Oxford guide', which follow very closely the form and style of Christopher Anstey's ‘The new Bath guide’ (London, 1766), and therefore may possibly be by Christopher Anstey himself. (Folio...
Dates: 1789-1821.

Assorted proofs for "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" by David Livingstone., ? 1856-? 1857.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42430-42435
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: ? 1856-? 1857.

Correspondence of various members of the Brown family., 1862-1880, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3262
Scope and Contents

At the end of the volume are cuttings from the ‘West India Committee Circular’, 1927 and 1933, relating to Major-General John Brown, and portraits and photographs of members of the Brown family. Also included is a lock of horse hair from the tail of 'Alma', the horse ridden by George Brown in to the Battle of Alma, 21 September 1854.

Dates: 1862-1880, undated.

Draft illustrations and paste-ups of artwork by Alasdair Gray for 'Some Gray stuff', with related correspondence of Lucy McKenzie, Decemberism records., 2006.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12900/11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

'Some Gray stuff' was an album produced by Decemberism records and features recordings of Alasdair Gray reading poetry, a short story and a song.

Dates: 2006.

Grangerized copy of R H Cromek’s 'Reliques of Robert Burns', 4th edition, (London, 1817), part I (pages [i]-186)., 1st quarter of 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.1654
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Part of the correspondence belongs, in date and subject, to the previous volume. The greater part belongs to the years 1805-1819, and deals with R H Cromek's scheme for an edition of Burns illustrated by Thomas Stothard, (Member of the Royal Academy of Arts), and with the preparation of the 8th edition of James Currie, edited by Gilbert Burns. Among the illustrations are several original sketches by Stothard, of scenes and objects associated with Burns.

Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

Grangerized copy of R H Cromek’s 'Reliques of Robert Burns', 4th edition, (London, 1817), part II (pages 187-453)., 1st quarter of 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.1655
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Part of the correspondence belongs, in date and subject, to the previous volume. The greater part belongs to the years 1805-1819, and deals with R H Cromek's scheme for an edition of Burns illustrated by Thomas Stothard, (Member of the Royal Academy of Arts), and with the preparation of the 8th edition of James Currie, edited by Gilbert Burns. Among the illustrations are several original sketches by Stothard, of scenes and objects associated with Burns.

Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

Grangerized copy of R H Cromek’s 'Reliques of Robert Burns', 4th edition (London, 1817), with correspondence of Cadell & Davies, James Currie, John McCreery, Gilbert Burns, R H Cromek, William Roscoe, and others., 1st quarter of 19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1654-1655
Scope and Contents

Part of the correspondence belongs, in date and subject, to the previous volume. The greater part belongs to the years 1805-1819, and deals with R H Cromek's scheme for an edition of Burns illustrated by Thomas Stothard, (Member of the Royal Academy of Arts), and with the preparation of the 8th edition of James Currie, edited by Gilbert Burns. Among the illustrations are several original sketches by Stothard, of scenes and objects associated with Burns.

Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

‘Heredity and politics’ by J B S Haldane, consisting partly of manuscript, and partly of typescript, both extensively amended, together with proofs of some of the tables and other illustrative items., [1937-1938].

 Item
Identifier: MS.20564
Scope and Contents

The book, which was published in 1938, is an expanded version of a series of lectures given at Birmingham in 1937 under the title 'Human biology and politics'. In view of the numerous additional paragraphs written on separate sheets the text is stamped with a series of consecutive numbers (7 to 230) to indicate the correct sequence to the printer.

Dates: [1937-1938].

Illustrated notes and sketches addressed to Sydney Goodsir Smith's second wife, Hazel., 1964-1974, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26152
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

Dates: 1964-1974, undated.

Illustrations and drawings for editions of 'Lavengro', by George Borrow., Circa 1930-1936.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12091/73-74
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).

Dates: Circa 1930-1936.

Incomplete manuscript, "Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries", by David Livingstone; with related proofs and a watercolour sketch., 1864-1865.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42436-42438
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: 1864-1865.

Incomplete manuscript, typescript, and proofs of volume I of ‘The life of George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen’, by Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, with copies of the illustrations and lists of reviews of the work., [1911, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.19566
Scope and Contents From the Series: Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot was the second son of the 3rd Earl of Minto. He was educated privately, at Edinburgh University, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. After a brief period of practice on the Northern Circuit, he was elected Liberal M P for Roxburghshire in 1880; in 1886 he opposed Gladstone's Home Rule policy but held his seat as a Liberal Unionist until 1892. After being defeated by a single vote in 1895, Elliot was returned for Durham at a by-election in 1898. He was appointed...
Dates: [1911, or before.]

‘Innes of Drumgask, Balnacraig, and Ballogie’, Aberdeenshire, 'a family history', by the Reverend John Stirton., 1942.

 File
Identifier: MS.3068
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A typewritten work, dealing in particular with Lewis Innes, Principal of the Scots College in Paris, and his brother Thomas, the historian, and containing accounts of the Scots College, of Jacobite activities in France, and of the founding of the Roman Catholic Seminary at Scalan, Banffshire. Copies of correspondence from the Stuart Papers at Windsor are included.

Dates: 1942.

Journal kept by the Honourable Helen Anne Mackenzie, wife of Lord Mackenzie, during a tour on the Continent, July to September 1823., 1823.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2541
Scope and Contents

The party sailed from Newhaven-on-Forth to Scarborough, visited York, and travelled through Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland. The scenery and the habits of the people are described and pictures of costumes and places have been inserted.

Dates: 1823.

Journal of a Continental tour of France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Belgium. , 1840-1841.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6340
Scope and Contents

The unidentified writer describes local industries such as the working of Gobelins tapestry and the manufacture of glass beads at Venice, and Alpine glaciers and waterfalls. The volume is illustrated throughout by engravings, coloured postcards, and pencil sketches.

Dates: 1840-1841.