Illustrations. Layout features.
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:
Script, photographs for illustrations and other papers of 'Suileabhan' (1982), by Calum Ferguson., 1982.
File
Identifier: Acc.9367/35
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The editorial archive from 1952 to 1985 of the Gaelic literary and topical magazine 'Gairm' and of its associated Gaelic book publications, together forming Gairm Publications Ltd. The collection was assembled and maintained by Ruaraidh MacThomais, Professor Derick S Thomson, co-founder of the magazine (with the late Finlay J MacDonald) and editor since its foundation. Included also are some publishing papers of Professor Thomson's imprint, Clo Chaillean, Aberfeldy, and of a publication...
Dates:
1982.
Seven volumes of photographs, 1903-1922, and undated, of Himalayan and Alpine subjects, many concerning the 1922 Everest expedition, compiled by Professor George Ingle Finch; and the typescript, 1942-1945, with illustrations by Ronald Searle, of `Mountain Prospect` by R Scott Russell, written in Chargi Jail.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.345
Scope and Contents
Also included is the printed book `Mountain prospect` (London, 1946), by R Scott Russell.
Dates:
1903-1922, 1942-1946, and undated.
Sketches and proofs of illustrations by Donald MacKenzie for Garrett Anderson, "Brennan`s Book" (1977) and Paul Harris, "The Rhythm of the Glass" (1977).
File
Identifier: Acc.10423
Dates:
circa 1977.
Some miscellaneous letters of and to John Francis Campbell relating either to his work on Gaelic folklore or to that on thermography., 1857-1883, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.6a
Scope and Contents
Notable correspondents include Lord Lorne and the anthropologist, General Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
Other miscellaneous items are included at the end of the correspondence: some highland tales and poems collected by Hector Maclean, a few printed illustrations from ‘Frost and Fire’ and three undated caricatures drawn by Lord Archibald Campbell.
Dates:
1857-1883, and undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
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Miscellaneous small items of John Francis Campbell.
Ten albums of illustrations for the Waverley Novels selected from various editions and presented on silk for an American collector.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12812
Dates:
circa 1900.
"The Warriston Monthly".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9241
Scope and Contents
Illustrated magazine circulating in manuscript amonst the employees of McLagan and Cumming.
Dates:
1897.
'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts in English on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart., 1852-1866, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2177
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From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1852-1866, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Unpublished treatises of John Sobieski Stuart (John Hay Allan), calling himself Count d'Albanie, with materials collected for them.
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Manuscript of the treatise, 'The History of Hand Fire-arms', by John Sobieski Stuart; with realted material.
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'Tracts on Projectiles', being printed tracts on fire-arms, armour, etc., collected by John Sobieski Stuart.
"Trip to Edinburgh and Glasgow by the Polytechnic Y.M.C.I. ..." by W A Stephenson.
File
Identifier: MS.9234
Scope and Contents
Stephenson's diary covers his visit to Scotland from 23-30 August 1890.
The writer gives his impressions of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and of places in the Forth and Clyde valleys and in the Central Highlands which he visited, such as Kirkcaldy, Dundee, Dunfermline, Greenock, Rothesay, Perth, Dunkeld, and Pitlochry. The main significance of the journal is in his description of his visit to the Edinburgh International Exhibition. He is interested in the engineering sections of the exhibition, the...
Dates:
1890.
Two illustrated tales for children of James S Richardson, "The Sausage-on-a-Stick", and "A Marie Catherine Book".
File
Identifier: Acc.5917
Dates:
1939.
Two illustrations of John Faed for Robert Burns, "Tam O` Shanter".
File
Identifier: Acc.7083
Scope and Contents
Published for the members of the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland.
Dates:
1855.
Two photographs of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, with an illustrated notebook of her poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.12841
Dates:
circa 1921-1941.
Typescript of material for a household dictionary in Spanish and English, compiled by Ruthven Todd and Anne McGuire, with a few illustrations by Todd., 1963-1965, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26842
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Much of Ruthven Todd's prose writing, especially in his later life, was repetitious: he not only made numerous drafts and re-writings, but he used the same material in both books and articles. In particular, he made use of his own reminiscences in his work on Dylan Thomas and Fitzrovia as well as in the more autobiographical 'Dead and other friends and places'. MSS.26834-26856 contain material intended for full-length books; MSS.26857-26863 consist of shorter works and...
Dates:
1963-1965, undated.
Typescript of 'Recollections of my life from public school to privy seal', an autobiography to 1907 by Charles R Wynn-Carrington, later Marquess of Lincolnshire., [1907, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.10229
Scope and Contents
A large number of photographs and illustrations have been pasted in.
Dates:
[1907, or after.]
Typescripts, with pencil and watercolour illustrations and photographs inserted, of diaries of Violet Jacobs kept while in India, 1895-1923., 1932, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27414-27415
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Born Kennedy-Erskine, she was brought up in the House of Dun near Montrose, and married an army officer in 1894. She wrote in both Scots and English, and some of her prose works are set in Angus.
Dates:
1932, undated.
Volume 1, numbers 2 and 4 of "Within", a typescript prisoner of war periodical produced in Hut number 10, Hong Kong.
File
Identifier: Acc.11046
Scope and Contents
Includes original art work.
Dates:
1942.
Volume of nine miscellaneous manuscripts, forming part of the Hugh Sharp Collection., 1679-1933.
File
Identifier: MS.3310 [H.S.389]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letter of the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Public Affairs, signed by Archbishop Sharp, ordering the Earl of Linlithgow to cause seize Francis Scott of Greenhill in the head of Yarrow, 1679 (folio 1);(ii) Commission of a captain in Cluny's regiment, signed by Prince Charles Edward, 1745 (folio 2);(iii) Discharge-certificate of a sergeant, signed by George Washington, 1783 (folio 4);(iv) Letters...
Dates:
1679-1933.