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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:

Typescript, undated, of 'Indian diary' by Violet Jacobs., 1922-1923.

 Item
Identifier: MS.27415
Scope and Contents

Diary of a second visit to India when Violet Jacob and her husband returned to some of the places they had known in 1895-1900. It describes their journey from Port Said to Bhopal and travels to Agra, Mhow, Dhar, and other places. There are lively descriptions of social visits, especially to Sultan Jehan Begum, the ruler of Bhopal, local life, archaeological remains, scenery and plants.

Dates: 1922-1923.

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.

Volume containing watercolour sketches, photographs, maps and geological notes of John Francis Campbell, recording a visit he made to North America in the autumn of 1864., 1864.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The volumes reflect, in his detailed descriptions, watercolours and sketches, Campbell’s interest in people, art, science and sport. In the later journals, his interest in geology and meteorology predominates, with particular emphasis on the effects of glaciation observed in various countries.

The sketches usually occur in chronological sequence with notes below each giving the date, place and other additional information.

Dates: 1864.

Volume containing watercolours, photographs, notes and printed items relating to John Francis Campbell`s travels from 1865-1868., 1858-1868.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.2
Scope and Contents Campbell illustrates a visit to Hammerfest and the North Cape made in the Autumn of 1865 and travels he made in Scotland for geological interest in the following years.There are several printed pamphlets by Campbell which have been inserted at various places throughout the volume: ‘Notes on the Stature of the Lapps’ (London, 1866) (folio 53), “Rough Night`s Quarters” (Edinburgh, 1866) (folio 75), ‘A Method of Converting Collodion Negatives into Positives’ (Liverpool, 1858) (folio...
Dates: 1858-1868.

Volume of watercolour sketches by John Francis Campbell made on his trip to Norway and Sweden in 1849., 1849.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.18
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The volumes reflect, in his detailed descriptions, watercolours and sketches, Campbell’s interest in people, art, science and sport. In the later journals, his interest in geology and meteorology predominates, with particular emphasis on the effects of glaciation observed in various countries.

The sketches usually occur in chronological sequence with notes below each giving the date, place and other additional information.

Dates: 1849.

Water-colour paintings by William Gibb, the originals of the illustrations to ‘The Royal House of Stuart’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3246-3247
Scope and Contents

Most of the paintings are undated, but the dates 1888 and 1889 are found on a few.

Dates: 1888-1889, undated.

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.

Watercolour paintings, by Thomas Brown of Waterhaughs and Lanfine, Advocate.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.8.1-34.8.3
Scope and Contents

The paintings are chiefly of Edinburgh and other places in Scotland; several were made in Corfu and Malta, and some in Italy, Sicily, and other Continental countries. According to a note of the donor (Adv.MS.34.8.1, folio iii), they were probably made between 1830 and 1850.

They are mounted - apparently not in chronological, and certainly not in topographical, order - in three albums, each of which contains a list of contents at the beginning.

Dates: ?1830-1850.

Watercolour paintings, by Thomas Brown of Waterhaughs and Lanfine, volume 1., ?1830-1850.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.8.1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The paintings are chiefly of Edinburgh and other places in Scotland; several were made in Corfu and Malta, and some in Italy, Sicily, and other Continental countries. According to a note of the donor (Adv.MS.34.8.1, folio iii), they were probably made between 1830 and 1850.

They are mounted - apparently not in chronological, and certainly not in topographical, order - in three albums, each of which contains a list of contents at the beginning.

Dates: ?1830-1850.

Watercolour paintings, by Thomas Brown of Waterhaughs and Lanfine, volume 2., ?1830-1850.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.8.2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The paintings are chiefly of Edinburgh and other places in Scotland; several were made in Corfu and Malta, and some in Italy, Sicily, and other Continental countries. According to a note of the donor (Adv.MS.34.8.1, folio iii), they were probably made between 1830 and 1850.

They are mounted - apparently not in chronological, and certainly not in topographical, order - in three albums, each of which contains a list of contents at the beginning.

Dates: ?1830-1850.

Watercolour paintings, by Thomas Brown of Waterhaughs and Lanfine, volume 3., ?1830-1850.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.8.3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The paintings are chiefly of Edinburgh and other places in Scotland; several were made in Corfu and Malta, and some in Italy, Sicily, and other Continental countries. According to a note of the donor (Adv.MS.34.8.1, folio iii), they were probably made between 1830 and 1850.

They are mounted - apparently not in chronological, and certainly not in topographical, order - in three albums, each of which contains a list of contents at the beginning.

Dates: ?1830-1850.

Watercolour sketch of Duntulm Castle, by Constance Gordon Cumming.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7156
Scope and Contents

Drawn for an illustration of her "From the Hebrides to the Himalayas" (1876).

Dates: circa 1876.

Watercolour sketches chiefly by members of the Balfour and Ellice families, with a few in pencil and a few by other people., 1823-1852, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.15174
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.

Dates: 1823-1852, undated.