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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:

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.

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.]

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 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.

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.