Watercolours. Paintings.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to two-dimensional works of art, usually on a paper support, to which pigment suspended in water is applied with a brush to create an image or design.
Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17901-17926
Scope and Contents
James Augustus Grant joined the Bengal Army in 1848 and was at the siege of Multan, the battle of Gujerat, and the relief of Lucknow. From 1860 to 1863 he was seconded to the Royal Geographical Society's expedition under John Hanning Speke, when the source of the Nile was identified and Uganda and southern Sudan visited. After further service in Kashmir and secondment to Napier's Abyssinian expedition, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1868. He was awarded the Gold Medal of...
Dates:
1821-1892, undated.
Papers of Stewart Sim.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11125
Scope and Contents
Includes architectural drawings, sketches, watercolours and photographs.
Dates:
1913-circa 1975.
Papers of the family of Scott Plummer of Sunderland Hall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11136
Dates:
17th century to 20th century.
Pen, ink and watercolour design of Sir Frank Mears for a "Civic Museum and Outlook Tower for an American City."
Item
Identifier: Acc.11024
Dates:
1923.
Pencil sketches and several early watercolours of A E Borthwick, 1888, undated, with a number of pencil sketches of Robert Gibb, 1870-1876, 1895-1906, undated, chiefly of Scottish scenery., 1870-1906, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.10470
Scope and Contents
There are also some notes and a little correspondence, 1880-1883, concerning Robert Gibb's painting 'The thin red line', executed in 1881. The remainder of the sketches, chiefly undated, include early caricatures and a sketch by Lady Polwarth (folios 107-108).
Dates:
1870-1906, undated.
Photocopy of sketchbook of David Livingstone containing pencil and watercolour drawings of people, animals, birds, and scenes., 1860.
Item
Identifier: MS.10760
Photographs and watercolour portraits of, or assembled by, William Simpson.
File
Identifier: Acc.11877
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript of memoir "Notes and Recollections".
Dates:
1843-1893.
Photographs by, of and concerning A E Borthwick and family., 1815-[circa 1900], undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10483-10488
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:
1815-[circa 1900], undated.
Photographs, maps and watercolours, compiled by Nikolai Vasilievich Poggenpol.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8563
Scope and Contents
Concerning mountaineering expedition to Digoria, Balkaria, and Bezingi, in the Caucasus.
Dates:
1904.
Portfolio of miscellaneous drawings, watercolours, and maps, many apparently by J K Rennie., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.19963
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Rennie was one of the distinguished group of Scottish engineers whose work contributed so much to the industrial and commercial development of the United Kingdom in the early 19th century. With the exception of roads, in which he appears not to have been interested, and steam engines, which he promised Watt not to build - though he frequently constructed the accompanying machinery - there was very little in the field of engineering that lay outside the range of his activities.
This...
Dates:
19th century.
Portraits drawn by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in pencil, ink and watercolours.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19407-19408
Scope and Contents
The portraits have been cut out of larger sheets or sketchbooks and mounted in albums. Most of the sitters are unidentified. In accordance with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's practice (see ‘Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’, volume i, pages 21, 40) the heads are completed in watercolours but the rest of the figure and any background are usually only sketched in pencil.
Dates:
[Circa 1813].
Presentation inscription, December 1942, by Joyce Cary to Professor John Dover Wilson, in Cary's 'To be a pilgrim' (London, 1942).
Item
Identifier: MS.10798
Scope and Contents
A watercolour by Joyce Cary depicting the scene described on page 306 is pasted inside the front cover. The title page is also signed by him.
Dates:
1942.
Printed works on heraldry, with manuscript notes chiefly concerning the genealogy of the Borthwick family, probably by John Borthwick of Borthwick and Crookston, circa 1804., 1581, 1622, [circa 1804].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6132-6133
Scope and Contents
The coats of arms illustrating the works have been painted in watercolours.
Dates:
1581, 1622, [circa 1804].
Recordings of sun-spots from December 1883 to 1884 accompanied by meteorological notes and diagrams., 1881, 1883-1884.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.5
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains several rough watercolour sketches of Scottish scenes, dated August 1881, and some earlier solar experiments with related cuttings, 1881.
Dates:
1881, 1883-1884.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
'Rhymes of the Poona Volunteer Rifles' by John C Matthew, being verses by an army chaplain with illustrations in watercolours.
Item
Identifier: MS.15977
Dates:
1916.
Scottish album containing 36 illustrations of artists on Robert Burns and his works., 1914.
Item
Identifier: MS.23639
Scope and Contents
1. David Murray, “Dunure Castle, Ayrshire”2. R. B. Nisbet, “In Burns Country”3. Andrew F. Affleck “Ellisland near Dumfries”4. A. B. Docharty, “Auld Brig o’ Doon with Monument”5. J. Whitelaw Hamilton, “Where Highland Mary lies, Greenock”6. James G. Laing, “Alloway Kirk by Moonlight”7. A. K. Brown, “The Brow Well, Solway”8. James Paterson, “On the Nith at Ellisland”9. Thomas H. McKay, “Willie’s...
Dates:
1914.
Scottish album containing 36 illustrations of artists on Robert Burns and his works, including press cuttings and original holding mechanism.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.23639-23641
Dates:
1914-2008.
Scrap-book offered to the Countess of Minto, containing signatures of ladies in India, and watercolours of scenes there., 1910.
Item
Identifier: MS.12790
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1910.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the 4th Earl of Minto relating to his time in India.
Scrapbook containing a water-colour painting of primulas, a poem entitled 'Lines to Agnes' by 'B.W.', and scraps of paper bearing designs of flowers and birds, apparently of French origin., ?19th century-?early 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6346
Scope and Contents
The watercolour painting is on folio 14.
Dates:
?19th century-?early 20th century.
Scrapbook of John Francis Campbell, containing material relating to his interests and activities., 1877-1878.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Watercolour and pencil sketches made on a sailing trip round the west coast of Scotland in 1877, accompanied by notes of a mainly geological nature (folios 1-39).(ii) Watercolour sketches, photographs and notes recording his visit to Egypt and Syria from January to April 1878 (folios 47-142).(iii) Press cuttings and notes on the Argyllshire Election of 1878 in which Lord Colin Campbell participated (folios...
Dates:
1877-1878.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Scrapbook whose contents include photographs of Borthwick castle, several family photographs, watercolour paintings of frescos at Pompeii, and engraved facsimiles of early charters., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.10483
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:
Late 19th century.
Scrapbooks of Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes, wife of Sir David Charles Herbert Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Newhailes., 1898-1911.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25673-25677
Scope and Contents
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:
1898-1911.
Six albums of pen and watercolour sketches by H G M Kirby depicting a history of his sporting life and his friends.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12786
Scope and Contents
Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.
Dates:
circa 1890-1919.
Sketch book of Major-General John Brown, containing drawings in pen, pencil and watercolour of buildings and landscapes in Scotland and Ireland.
Item
Identifier: MS.8026
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1784-1792.
Sketchbook containing drawings in pencil and water-colour of scenes in the Allied camp during the Crimean campaign, 1854-1856.
Item
Identifier: MS.9489
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1850-1856.