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Sketchbooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books or pads of blank sheets used or intended for sketching, which are informal or rough drawings.

Found in 140 Collections and/or Records:

Collections of drawings by Katherine Jane Ellice., 1844-1870, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15170-15174
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.

Dates: 1844-1870, undated.

Collections of drawings consisting chiefly of watercolour and pencil sketches., 1844-1870, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15170-15175
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.

Dates: 1844-1870, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.15001-15195
Scope and Contents

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.

Dates: 1757-1934, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Victor Gilbert Lariston Garnet Elliot Murray Kynymound (1891-1975), 5th Earl of Minto, and of Gilbert Edward George Lariston Elliot Murray Knynmound (born 1928), 6th Earl of Minto., 1890-1941, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.12804-12809
Scope and Contents

Victor Gilbert Lariston Garnet Elliot Murray Kynynmound was styled Viscount Melgund from 1891 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1914; and Gilbert Edward George Lariston Elliot Murray Kynynmound was styled Viscount Melgund from 1928 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1975.

Dates: 1890-1941, undated.

Drawings and sketches by David Young Cameron and Katharine Cameron Kay., 1932-1936, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.8950/8-12
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1932-1936, undated.

Facsimile, after 1918, of a sketchbook, ?1916, of caricatures of officers of the Royal Scots during the First World War.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14190
Content Description

The artist is anonymous, but notes in the sketchbook indicate that his first name was Robin.

Dates: ?1916.

File box, unlabelled, containing letters, postcards and faxes of Rob Fairley to Marshall Anderson., 1994-2011.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 38(1)-(3)
Scope and Contents

Also included is a sketch book of Rob Fairley, 'Kathmandu: being a brief history of a walk from Nag Pokhari to Pushputinath on the first night of Diwali 1997'; and a printed catalogue, 'Rob Fairley: the early works'. The box lid is covered on the outside in the remnants of a purple, synthetic waterproof jacket. The rest of the outside of the box is covered in green fabric. The box is lined with a map showing the isles of Rhum (in part) and Eigg, and part of Arisaig.

Dates: 1994-2011.

Forbes Family sketch books., 1825-1856.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/332-359
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1825-1856.

Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates: 1941-2022

Literary papers of Jen Hadfield.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14031

Miscellaneous papers of the Graham family of Airth., 1682-1899.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10963-10969
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: 1682-1899.

Notebooks of Graham Brown, containing fair notes., 1851-1855, 1886-1899, 1924-1929, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/115-159
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1851-1855, 1886-1899, 1924-1929, undated.

Notebooks recording a tour of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14494
Content Description

Two journals and a sketchbook, possibly by Harriet Wise (1797-1877) or her sister Hannah.

Places visited include: Dunkeld, Inverness, Drumnadrochit, Fort William, Tobermory, Staffa, Skye, Inveraray, Cairdow and Glasgow.

The sketchbook includes drawings of Ben Cruachan, the Cuillins on Syke, Iona, Inveraray, Staffa, Urqhart Castle. Two paintings of Melrose and Loch Leven Castle tipped inside.

Dates: 1828

Notes and sketches for pottery designs., 1976-2001, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12879/91-92
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Recipes, tests, firing schedules, samples, sketches, and other papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, her masters' thesis, and her book, 'Working with lustres'.

Dates: 1976-2001, undated.

Official and private papers of Alexander Walker during his period as governor of St Helena, 1823-1828, and until his death in retirement in 1831., 1734-1830, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.13741-13774
Scope and Contents

Whilst at St Helena, Alexander Walker busied himself in promoting the agricultural potential of the island and in tackling the question of slavery.

Dates: 1734-1830, undated.

Original sketchbooks and portfolios of loose artworks by Lucinda Mackay, 1960-2021

 Series
Identifier: MS.50735-MS.50770
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This sub-series contains a collection of Lucinda Mackay's sketchbooks spanning the period [?1970]-2012, featuring observational sketches from everyday life and travels in Scotland, England, Europe, Turkey, and China. Also present are 6 portfolios of loose artworks and 16 photograph albums/folders documenting the artist's completed paintings.

Dates: 1960-2021