Sketches.
Found in 77 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous purchases.
Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.
The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards;
detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.
The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.
Notebooks of Sir James Hall entitled "Chemical experiments made with a view to obviate some of the difficulties in Dr Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth'".
The notebooks give a day to day account, with sketches, of experiments made between 1798 and 1806. Most of the material is embodied in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 3rd June 1805, entitled 'Account of a series of experiments, showing the effects of compression in modifying the action of heat'.
Original sketch for Faculty of Advocates Library book-plate.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.
Papers of George Thomson, chiefly concerning Robert Bums.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.
Pencil sketches, 1894-1897, by the Edinburgh artist Murray Macdonald throughout the trade catalogue, 1892, of Winsor and Newton Ltd., London.
Almost all the sketches are unidentified portraits and caricatures.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
Portrait sketches by Sir David Wilkie on the fly-leaves of his Bible, with his signature, dated 11 November 1799.
Seven plans of Cava, Tankerness, and Orphir, in Orkney; with two sketches of Stromness.
Sketch by Colonel Mikailovitch, commander of the artillery of the Second Serbian Army, illustrating the disposition of guns and troops for an attack on the Bulgarian front.
The attack took place at 0535 on 15 September 1918 and was the first break-through on the Bulgarian front.
The sketch was made for the information of the 4.7 inch gun section of the 84th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, British Army.
Sketches of Chinese scenes, chiefly in pencil, by Walter George Dickson, Doctor of Medicine, Edinburgh (died 1894), for many years a medical practitioner in Canton, author of ‘Japan' and 'Gleanings from Japan’.
Sketches of Scottish scenery, chiefly in pencil, by Jean Goldie of Summerhill, author of ‘Familiar recollections and national progress’.
Information about the artist was supplied by the donors. Contains 74 sketches mounted on sheets containing one to four sketches.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.
The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.
'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.
Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.
There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.
'Tom: 2d of the juvenile poetic works of John Black’, containing drafts of verse dramas and other poems including fragments of ‘The Falls of Clyde, or the fairies’ by John Black, minister of Coylton.
According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.
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).
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.
‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.
'Views in Scotland, from sketches by Thomas Oliphant . . . 1852.'
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.