Sketches.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Rough or summary art works; less finished than studies. Though sketches are often in the drawing medium, the term ""drawings"" in general implies more finished works than does ""sketches"" .
Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:
Twenty-six sketches by Walter George Dickson, chiefly of Ningpo, including a painting of Hong Kong., [?1850-?1860.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.505 (i)-(ii)
Dates:
[?1850-?1860.]
Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).
File
Identifier: MS.5318
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.
Dates:
1941-1942.
Two notebooks of Ruthven Todd containing shopping lists, addresses, sketches and other miscellaneous jottings., 1967, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26869-26870
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Ruthven Todd was born and educated in Edinburgh, and from 1932 to 1934 worked as a farm labourer in Mull before moving to London where he joined the Bohemian world of writers and artists in Fitzrovia. In 1947, he left for the United States where he eventually settled in Martha's Vineyard and became an American citizen. From 1960 until his death, he lived in the Balearic island of Majorca.Most of the papers date from Todd's Majorcan period, but because he based much of his work on...
Dates:
1967, undated.
‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.
File
Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents
The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates:
1909.
Unidentified sketches and plans, undated, including a plan, 1829, of Gogar village, Edinburgh., 1829, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5713
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates:
1829, undated.
Unmounted sketches of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke., 1860-1863.
File
Identifier: MS.17921
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The sketches include scenes, portraits, objects, and incidents. Some are the source of woodcuts in John Hanning Speke’s ‘Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile’ 1863, and some of these have notes in Speke’s hand.
Dates:
1860-1863.
Various manuscripts and fragments, almost all undated, in the autograph of Hugh Miller., 1819-[1852, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.7518
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Two 'Descriptive Letters' probably intended for publication and signed 'M--r', concerning a visit to Edinburgh in 1824 (folio 1);(ii) Fragmentary notebooks, 1819-1820, undated, mainly containing poems, some of which were published with many alterations in ‘Poems written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason’ (Edinburgh, 1829) (folio 10);(iii) Description of the parish of Cromarty: basically the text of the description...
Dates:
1819-[1852, or before.]
'Views in Scotland, from sketches by Thomas Oliphant . . . 1852.'
File
Identifier: MS.10990
Scope and Contents
A volume of pencil sketches of landscapes and buildings in Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, Sutherland, Rossshire, Inverness-shire and Perthshire. The title is on a label pasted on the front cover. The first sketch is missing.
Dates:
1852.
Volume containing chiefly prints, with a few drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists., [?1827.]
File
Identifier: MS.5791
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The images are nearly all of Italian scenes, and seem to have been collected during a tour of Italy in 1827.
Dates:
[?1827.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Journals, commonplace books and letters from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Volumes containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists.
Volume containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists., [?1827.]
File
Identifier: MS.5792
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The images are nearly all of Italian scenes, and seem to have been collected during a tour of Italy in 1827.
Dates:
[?1827.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Journals, commonplace books and letters from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Volumes containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists.
Volume entitled 'Notes on Climbing in and about Wasdale'., 1866-1891, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.6345
Scope and Contents
Inside the front cover of the volume are the words "this book is a facsimile of the Climbers' Book at Wasdale Head Hotel", with the signature 'R.W. Lloyd, November 1953' (folio i). It includes pages of ‘All the year round’, 1884, and ‘Chamber's Journal’, 1887, containing articles on climbs in the English Lake District, by C N Williamson, and on 'The Death-Roll of Snowdon' (folio 1); entries, 1866-1891, copied from the Wasdale Head book, describing the impressions of mountaineering visitors...
Dates:
1866-1891, undated.
Volume of embroidery patterns with a dedication on the flyleaf 'Charlotte Scott from Sarah Eliza Jessop. Dec. 8th 1831'., 1831.
File
Identifier: MS.10388
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains knitting patterns, several anecdotes, recipes and a few rough pencil sketches.
Dates:
1831.
Volume of official papers of the Honourable James St Clair relating to the expedition to the west coast of France, including maps of parts of Brittany and a sketch of the battery at L'Orient., 1745.
File
Identifier: MS.25688 [Manuscript]
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The main interest of the papers lies in the military and diplomatic material relating to General St Clair's career in the British army over thirty years.
The 2nd son of the 10th Lord Sinclair, James St Clair succeeded as titular 12th Lord Sinclair in 1750 on the death of his brother, who was attainted in 1715. In 1747 he married Janet, daughter of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, and widow of Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet of Newbyth. He served with the Foot Guards in Gibraltar in...
Dates:
1745.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
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Volume of official papers of the Honourable James St Clair relating to the expedition to the west coast of France; with original binding.
Volume originally owned by Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and apparently originally used as an account book and subsequently to contain sketches, then turned over and used by Edward Charles Ellice of Invergarry to contain notes and memoranda relating to the estate of Glengarry for the years 1814 to 1912., ?1818-1912.
Item
Identifier: MS.15168
Scope and Contents
The volume contains sheets watermarked 1818.
Several leaves have been torn out at both ends of the volume and many leaves are blank except for the year recorded upon them.
The beginnings of an index to the original account book, the rest of which has evidently been torn out, appear, inverted, on folio 1 (i.e. what was originally the back of the volume).
Dates:
?1818-1912.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich.
Volume titled ‘Sketches of Members of the Bar’ drawn by Colonel Thomas Innes of Learney, Advocate.
Item
Identifier: F.R.362
Dates:
[Circa 1840.]
Volumes containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists., [?1827.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5791-5792
Scope and Contents
The images are nearly all of Italian scenes, and seem to have been collected during a tour of Italy in 1827.
Dates:
[?1827.]
Watercolour painting and other drawings and sketches., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9484/44
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
With documents, 1782-1930, concerning his family.
Dates:
Undated.
Watercolours and sketches of scenes in Scotland.
File
Identifier: MS.9842
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Watercolours of landscapes in Argyll, Bute (Loch Ranza), Dunbartonshire, Inverness-shire, Perthshire and Roxburghshire (Melrose), with three unidentified scenes (folio 1);
(ii) Sepia sketches of a town (possibly Thurso) and three unidentified scenes (folio 25);
(iii) A series of ink and wash sketches of landscapes in Argyll, Dunbartonshire, Inverness-shire and Perthshire, with seven unidentified scenes (folio 29);
(iv) Pencil sketch, 1859, of Branklin Lynn,...
Dates:
19th century.