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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 23 Collections and/or Records:

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.

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.

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

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

Papers of and relating to the artists Beatrice Huntington and William MacDonald.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14369/1-39
Scope and Contents Beatrice Huntington was born in 1889 in St. Andrews to Dr William Huntington, surgeon, and Charlotte Huntington, née Bowles, daughter of Joseph Bowles of Quebec City. She was educated in St Andrews before attending art schools in Paris and Munich between 1906-1911. She began exhibiting in 1916 and became an active member of the Dundee Art Society and the Society of Scottish Artists. Influenced by Modernist art styles, she experimented with Cubism in her portraits, including 'A Muleteer from...
Dates: 1864-2015.

Sketch book of Major-General John Brown, containing drawings in pen, pencil and watercolour of buildings and landscapes in Scotland and Ireland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8026
Scope and Contents

The artist made most of his sketches in August and September 1791, when he travelled from Elgin to Fort Augustus, Aviemore, and Cullen. There are also sketches of Edinburgh and of a few scenes in Ireland, and architectural drawings with measurements, mostly of Elgin Cathedral.

Dates: 1784-1792.

Sketchbook containing drawings in pencil and water-colour of scenes in the Allied camp during the Crimean campaign, 1854-1856.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9489
Scope and Contents

The sketchbook also includes two sketches of officers at a court martial in 1850 (folio 29) and a plan of a battery near Sebastopol, 1855-1856 (folio 31 verso).

Dates: 1850-1856.

Sketchbook containing Scottish landscapes by an anonymous artist.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14247
Scope and Contents

Sketchbook containing series of twenty-three landscape pencil and ink drawings of views around Edinburgh and the Highlands.

Dates: 1872.

Sketchbook containing watercolours and pencil sketches by an unidentified artist, chiefly of Kentish scenes and buildings.

 File
Identifier: MS.10280
Scope and Contents

There are also a number of portraits and studies of flowers. Two of the sketches are dated 1863 and most of the watercolours are titled. At the end of the volume several playing cards and a sheet of Chinese writing have been inserted.

Dates: 19th century.

Sketchbook of Helen Maitland Stirling containing scenes of Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14187
Scope and Contents

Pen and ink drawings of scenes including Keir House, Castlemilk, Campsie Glen, Stirling and Dunblane Cathedral. Inscribed 'Helen M. Stirling, London, June 1846'. T the sketches are also invididually dated.

Dates: [1846.]