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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 167 Collections and/or Records:

Game book of Duncan Campbell of Smith Hall.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9869
Scope and Contents

Includes accounts of expeditions in South Africa, Northern Nigeria, India and Scotland, with illustrations and maps by himself and his sister, Mary Barbara Campbell.

Dates: 1902-1914.

Grangerized copy of ‘A large new catalogue of the Bishops of...Scotland’ by Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755).

 File
Identifier: MS.8888
Scope and Contents

The volume contains additional notes and information (taken chiefly from the Acts of the General Assembly) written in a contemporary hand in the margins of many of the pages and on small sheets of paper tipped in at various places throughout.

Also enclosed are a printed prospectus of the work, dated Edinburgh, 1753, receipted by the author (folio 3), and a letter, 1925, returning the volume to its owner.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1753, 1755, 1925.

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.

Heavily corrected manuscript of chapters I-XVII of Thomas Reid, "Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking" (1826).

 File
Identifier: Acc.8787
Scope and Contents

With printed text and plates (with corrections) for Reid`s entry on horology in the "Edinburgh Encyclopedia".

Dates: circa 1826.

‘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 comments on the Housing Act, 1972 (Scotland), by Lachlan M Dinwoodie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5920
Scope and Contents

With illustrated verses, 1975, of Dinwoodie, "The Big Bell of Bow".

Dates: 1972, 1975.

Illustrated letter of James Sant.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8947
Scope and Contents

Describing a visit to Scotland and his painting activities.

Dates: 1859.

Illustrated letters of H Wilson, pseudonym Hall Tweed, to Mrs C Whalley, London.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11842
Scope and Contents

Wilson describes life in Greenock and Glasgow.

Dates: 1816-1820.

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.

Illustrations of heraldic terms.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.20
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes the ordinaries and sub-ordinaries with some of their variations, and a few other charges. The beginning is missing. A later hand has added examples of the colours and metals in trick (folio 46).

Dates: 17th century.

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.]