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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 53 Collections and/or Records:

List of paintings in exhibitions., 1937-1985.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9484/11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

With documents, 1782-1930, concerning his family.

Dates: 1937-1985.

Painting of the Krishna Avatar by Kapur Singh., [Circa 1865.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.16490
Scope and Contents

The painting is one of a series depicting the incarnations of Vishnu by a Sikh artist from Amritsar working for Colonel August C Honner. It shows Vasudeva carrying the infant Krishna across the river Yamuna.

Dates: [Circa 1865.]

Paintings by Indian artists.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16486-16489

Paintings of the armorial bearings of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun., 1825.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14669
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 1825.

Papers of the Gordon family of Halmyre and Gordonstoun.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.115- is now Acc.4642.
Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.

Papers of the Saltire Society relating to exhibitions, including minutes, correspondence, photographs and artwork., 1945-1987, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9393/605-637
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Records of the Saltire Society including minutes, reports and correspondence. The Society's aims are the strengthening and preservation of Scottish culture and tradition, and its archives reflect its numerous activities in these fields.

Dates: 1945-1987, undated.

Papers relating to 'Danny Fox' stories by David Thomson., Undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10129/94-97
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

This collection consists of the papers of David Thomson, author, researcher and BBC radio producer. It includes the scripts and correspondence of many BBC radio programmes from the 1950s and 60s, original scripts and correspondence regarding his published and unpublished books, and additional correspondence spanning forty five years working for UNESCO, the BBC, and as a full time writer.

Dates: Undated.

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.

Photograph of a painting by J Mérigot of Roaring River Estate, Jamaica.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folio 128
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a painting of Roaring River estate, Jamaica.

Dates: 1742-1841

‘Roll of all the Duckes, Marquisses, Earles, Viscounts, Barrons of Parliament, Bischopes and officiars of Estaite according to ther precedencey ... 1633`, by Sir James Balfour., 1633.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(iii)
Scope and Contents

The dates of some creations are given. A painting of a mitre precedes the section on archbishops and bishops. At the end are notes on the funerary trappings to which the different ranks were entitled.

Dates: 1633.

Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates: 13th century-17th century.

Scrapbook of Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes., 1899-1903.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25674
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Covering over ten years, the scrapbooks provide an insight into the social and domestic life of a wealthy young woman of the time. The volumes consist largely of photographs many probably taken by Lady Newhailes, and autographs of family and friends, photographs and water-colour drawings of Lady Newhailes's homes at Ardwell and Newhailes, and country houses visited in Scotland and England. With programmes and tickets for various sporting and social occasions pasted in. MS.25677 relates...
Dates: 1899-1903.

Scrapbook of Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes., 1906-1910.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25676
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Covering over ten years, the scrapbooks provide an insight into the social and domestic life of a wealthy young woman of the time. The volumes consist largely of photographs many probably taken by Lady Newhailes, and autographs of family and friends, photographs and water-colour drawings of Lady Newhailes's homes at Ardwell and Newhailes, and country houses visited in Scotland and England. With programmes and tickets for various sporting and social occasions pasted in. MS.25677 relates...
Dates: 1906-1910.

'Scraps given by the old familiars of John A. and Edith J. Hipkins. Collected by the survivor.’, Late 19th century-early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2928
Scope and Contents

The scrap-book contains a painting and woodcuts by Joseph Crawhall (given to John A Hipkins by Charles Keene); original drawings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, J F Sullivan, John A Hipkins himself, and others; a painting by Edith J Hipkins (page 64); illustrations cut out of Punch and other reproductions; and Valentines, letters, etc., addressed to Miss Hipkins.

Dates: Late 19th century-early 20th century.

Six painting of elephants, Indian.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6525