Paintings. Visual works.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Unique works in which images are formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Arabic astrological text, ? 19th century.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8889
Scope and Contents
With Burmese prayer woven on a tape, roll containing a poem, an inscription, and a painting by Ch`êng Chih-You, with accompanying ink blocks, all undated.
Dates:
? 19th century and undated.
Armorial traditionally associated with Sir Robert Forman, Lord Lyon from 1555 to 1567
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is described in ‘Heraldry in relation to Scottish history and art’ (Edinburgh, 1900), pages 193-195, which suggests that it is the source of Adv.MS.34.4.16(ii). It was displayed in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 691), and is closely related to both Adv.MS.31.4.3 and British Museum Harleian MS.115.The contents are as follows:(i) The royal arms (folio 2 verso).(ii) An explanation why the...
Dates:
Circa 1562.
Autograph album of an unknown collector, containing verses, drawings, and photographs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14322
Scope and Contents
The album contains poetry, prose extracts, drawings, painting, and photographs by various artists. Many of the entries relate to Edinburgh, including to Moray House.
Dates:
1918-1931.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3241-3243
Dates:
1796-1885, undated.
Colour photograph (reduced) of "Authors in Session", a group portrait by Stanley Cursiter of Edwin Muir, O H Mavor, Neil Gunn and Eric Linklater.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10253
Dates:
1950.
Colour transparencies, 2006, of artworks by Alasdair Gray, 1950s-2005.
File
Identifier: Acc.12637/1-6
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
[2006].
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.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Horoscope, with elaborate astrological calculations, of a man born in 1788 AD.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.6
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script, and contains pairs of illustrations at intervals (usually a sign of the zodiac plus a diagram).
Dates:
[After 1788.]
Illustrated diary of a tour of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.14084
Scope and Contents
Journal of a tour of Scotland from 21 September to 1 October 1885. The unidentified author is a Scot living in Sunderland and travels to Scotland to visit his brothers and mother in Dundee. He visits places in and around Dundee including Newport-on-Tay and Howe of Strathmore, and then takes an excursion into the Highlands. He travels by train, steamer, coach, sail boat and on foot. The journal, written in the form of a daily diary, includes several painted illustrations including train...
Dates:
1885
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Letters of W.S. Graham to Ruth Hilton; with poetry manuscripts and typescripts, artwork, related correspondence and published items.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13838
Dates:
circa 1956-1985.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence and related papers of Jessie Kesson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13722
Dates:
Circa 1946-1994.
Papers of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, containing diaries, drawings, paintings, photographs, newspaper cuttings and other related material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9713/1-118
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries and photographs.
Dates:
1883-1982 and undated.
Papers of the Gordon family of Halmyre and Gordonstoun.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.115- is now Acc.4642.
Dates:
Late 18th century-19th century.
Patent of nobility by the Empress Maria Theresa, in favour of Johann Baptist and Karl Joseph Hepperger, merchants in Botzen.
Item
Identifier: MS.10336
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in an engraved frame dated 1757, and includes a painting of the Hepperger coat of arms. Inserted at the beginning is a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1842, and other material concerning the document.
Dates:
1770.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
Small gouache paintings of scenes from the novels of Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.20344
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Three photograph albums, five plans and one painting of Heinrich Schliemann`s Mycenae excavations.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12973
Dates:
circa 1875-1879.