Sketchbooks.
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers, chiefly of General Sir George Brown, Knight Commander of the Bath, with those of other members of his family, residing at Linkwood, Elgin.
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.
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.
Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Facsimile, after 1918, of a sketchbook, ?1916, of caricatures of officers of the Royal Scots during the First World War.
The artist is anonymous, but notes in the sketchbook indicate that his first name was Robin.
Journals and sketch-books of Henry Aston Barker the painter of panoramas (died 1856).
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Letters, sketchbooks and photographs of Horatio Ross and his son Horatio Seftenberg Ross, with papers of and relating to the Ross family
Microfilm of correspondence, papers, charters and other formal documents of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and of his son Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, American and West Indian Merchant in London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Notebooks recording a tour of Scotland.
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.
Papers of and relating to the artists Beatrice Huntington and William MacDonald.
Photocopies of items of David Livingstone belonging to his grandson Dr H F Wilson.
Sketch book of Major-General John Brown, containing drawings in pen, pencil and watercolour of buildings and landscapes in Scotland and Ireland.
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.
Sketchbook containing drawings in pencil and water-colour of scenes in the Allied camp during the Crimean campaign, 1854-1856.
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).
Sketchbook containing Scottish landscapes by an anonymous artist.
Sketchbook containing series of twenty-three landscape pencil and ink drawings of views around Edinburgh and the Highlands.
Sketchbook containing watercolours and pencil sketches by an unidentified artist, chiefly of Kentish scenes and buildings.
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.
Sketchbook of drawings in water-colour, pen and pencil by Arthur Elliot, Worthing, including scenes in Scotland and some in Hastings and Guildford, on the Rhine, and in Biarritz, Pau, and Argelès.
Sketchbook of Helen Maitland Stirling containing scenes of Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire.
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.