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 266 Collections and/or Records:
Prints, photographs, and sketches of Henry William Meikle., 1793-1945, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3421/155-162
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Including notebooks, lectures, poetry and personal papers.
Dates:
1793-1945, undated.
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.
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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Scrapbooks and correspondence of and concerning Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes.
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Scrapbooks of Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes, wife of Sir David Charles Herbert Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Newhailes.
Scrapbook of Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes., 1903-1906.
Item
Identifier: MS.25675
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:
1903-1906.
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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Scrapbooks and correspondence of and concerning Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes.
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Scrapbooks of Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes, wife of Sir David Charles Herbert Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Newhailes.
Scrapbooks of Katy Horseman, containing material relating to Edinburgh, pots, people and cats., 1949-1990s, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11787/10-13
Scripts for talks on photographs., 1952, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10472/10-29
Dates:
1952, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
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Photographic plates and prints, with scripts for talks relating to photographs.
Series of six drawings - Improvements: sketches and sections - Edinburgh, North Bridge - surveyed by Robert Stevenson., 1845.
File
Identifier: MS.5849 (34)-(39)
Dates:
1845.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Edinburgh, London Road-Ey.
Series of two drawings - Sketch - Edinburgh, North Bridge., 1820.
File
Identifier: MS.5849 (25)-(26)
Dates:
1820.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Edinburgh, London Road-Ey.
Series of two drawings, undated - Sketches of proposed new buildings - Edinburgh, Regent Road., ?19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5849 (67)-(68)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Dates:
?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Edinburgh, London Road-Ey.
Seven sketches by Walter George Dickson, including one of Hong Kong., [?1850-?1860.]
File
Identifier: MS.506
Dates:
[?1850-?1860.]
Sixty miscellaneous black and white photographs, also containing a colour photograph and a sketch., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10555/71
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.
With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Gavin Maxwell and of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited.
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Papers of Gavin Maxwell.
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Miscellaneous artwork and photographs of Gavin Maxwell.
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Photographs of Gavin Maxwell, mostly black and white, containing a colour photograph and a sketch.
Sketch and plan of additions to Millburn Tower sent by Alexander Ramage Liston to Sir Robert Liston., 1813.
File
Identifier: MS.5715
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:
1813.
Sketch map showing locations of various conferences organised by the Scottish Association for Mental Health., Circa 1972-1973.
File
Identifier: Acc.7170/[Box] 13(5)
Dates:
Circa 1972-1973.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Records of the Scottish Association for Mental Health and its predecessor bodies, containing minutes, organisational correspondence and other related papers.
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Correspondence, invitations, programmes and organisational papers relating to conferences organised by the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
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Papers and sketch maps relating to conferences organised by the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
Sketch-plans relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle., 1883-1893, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1739 [Map Library]
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The undertaking was financed by William Nelson the publisher, and the architect was Hippolyte Blanc, to whom most of the letters are addressed.
Dates:
1883-1893, undated.
Sketchbook of A E Borthwick containing chiefly pencil sketches and rough watercolours of Scottish landscapes., 1902.
Item
Identifier: MS.10471
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1902.
Sketches and drawings by various members of the Minto family., [Circa 1777]-1843, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12864
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Dates:
[Circa 1777]-1843, undated.
Sketches and notes of Arthur Geddes for a proposed Zoological park, probably at Lucknow, India., 1924, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19280
Sketches by A E Borthwick and Robert Gibb, with other visual materials., 19th century-1964, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10470-10479
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
19th century-1964, undated.
Sketches, drawings and other visual material., [1935-2006].
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13338/665-675
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
[1935-2006].
Sketches of the crypt of Rosslyn Chapel, showing the working drawings., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10333
Dates:
19th century.
Small pocket-book of Lord Lynedoch of pencil notes and sketches, undated, some illegible, on fortifications., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.16192
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Military papers of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch.
Speeches delivered by Lord Rutherfurd, pamphlets containing obituary tributes to various friends, 1841-1859, and miscellaneous papers and pamphlets, 1746-1930, undated., 1746-1930, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9720
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) ‘Substance of a speech delivered by the Lord Advocate at a dinner given to him by his constituents at Leith, on Friday 8th January, 1841’ (Edinburgh, 1841) (folio 1);
(ii) Manuscript of a speech by Lord Rutherfurd, probably his address of congratulation on behalf of the Faculty of Advocates to David Boyle on his elevation to the Lord Presidency of the Court of Session, 1841 (folio 9);
(iii) ‘Inaugural address by Andrew Rutherfurd Esq., M.P., on his...
Dates:
1746-1930, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice, and other members of the Rutherfurd family.
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Miscellaneous papers and notebooks of Lord Rutherfurd and members of the Rutherfurd family.
'System of water-colour painting', 17th edition (London, 1858), by Aaron Penley, used by James Augustus Grant on his African expedition., 1858.
Item
Identifier: MS.17927
Scope and Contents
On the front cover are James Augustus Grant's signature and the note 'This book was my guide through Africa. J.A. Grant'; on a leaf tipped in after page [ii] are pencil and watercolour sketches; on page 64 is a pencil sketch; and on pages 7 and 10 of the advertisements at the back are pencil notes.
Dates:
1858.
‘Tales from the people of Sutherland’: stories, beliefs, riddles, etc., collected by Miss Charlotte Louisa Dempster., 1859.
File
Identifier: MS.2140
Scope and Contents
The volume contains entries by various writers, including John F Campbell of Islay, by whom there is an index (folio 2) and a sketch (folio 184).
Dates:
1859.
Thirty-seven pen and pencil drawings, in some cases with further sketches on the reverse side, by John Harden., 1803-1810.
File
Identifier: MS.8867
Scope and Contents
The drawings are nearly all figure-groups executed either at Queen Street, Edinburgh, or at Brathay Hall, Windermere. The majority depict family gatherings, often caught playing cards or chess, sometimes in the company of friends like the Learmonths in Edinburgh or the Lloyds at Brathay Hall (see MS.8872). In most cases, a brief description, based on information supplied by the Clay family, has been added.
Dates:
1803-1810.
Tracing and original - Sketch of harbour, with proposed piers and breakwaters - Boddam, Aberdeen - surveyed by Hamilton and Company., 1877.
File
Identifier: MS.5845 (42)-(43)
Dates:
1877.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with B.