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 115 Collections and/or Records:
Large scale plans and diagrams of Patrick Geddes., Late 19th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10656
Scope and Contents
The items are for the most part undated. They chiefly consist of sociological diagrams of the 'Thinking machine' type, with several biological and town-planning diagrams and drawings. Also included is a watercolour sketch plan of the Paris Exhibition of 1900 (no. 44), designs for New Crosby Hall, Chelsea (nos. 51-53), and plans for properties at Roseburn Cliff and Mount Tabor.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
'Le blason des armoiries’ ([Lyons], 1581), by Hierome de Bara., 1581, [circa 1804].
Item
Identifier: MS.6132
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The coats of arms illustrating the works have been painted in watercolours.
Dates:
1581, [circa 1804].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of mediaeval manuscripts and two printed books with manuscript notes, formerly in the possession of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
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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.
Letter of Thomas Carlyle to Lady William Russell concerning a portrait by Lucas Cranach, with a water-colour copy of this portrait by Lady Russell's granddaughter, Flora Russell., 1855.
File
Identifier: MS.8992 (iv), folios 174-177
Letters and journals sent to Lady Anna Maria Elliot., 1807-1811.
File
Identifier: MS.11102
Scope and Contents
The journals contain pencil and pen and watercolour sketches, and some verses, and were sent by Captain (later Major-General Sir) Thomas William Taylor, Military Secretary to the 1st Earl of Minto in India, to Lady Anna Maria Elliot. They describe the journey of the Minto party to India, their life and travel there, the voyage in the invasion fleet to Java via Penang and Malacca, the British conquest and occupation of the Dutch colonies, and life in Java.
Dates:
1807-1811.
Letters of Richard Baird Smith to his sister Helen, his wife Florence, daughter of Thomas De Quincey, and other members of the family., 1843-1861, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.10983
Scope and Contents
The early letters describe the scenery and people of India and mention Richard Baird Smith’s work on canals and his part in the Sikh war of 1848. There is a long series of letters to his wife, written almost daily from December 1856 to March 1857, which give details of his activities and comment on current events while he was travelling from Delhi to Agra, Gwalior, Cawnpore and Roorkee. A second, more fragmentary, series covers the period December 1857-February 1858. Also included are a...
Dates:
1843-1861, undated.
Letters to Madge Oliphant and Janet Mary ('Denny') Oliphant from various correspondents., 1875-1909, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.23203
Dates:
1875-1909, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and literary papers of Margaret O W Oliphant and her family.
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Correspondence of Margaret Oliphant and her family.
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Correspondence of Margaret Oliphant's nieces Madge, later Mrs William R F Valentine, and Janet Mary ('Denny') Oliphant.
Manuscript entitled, 'Description of the north coast of Scotland' [cover], in which is recorded a survey by Captain Henry Charles Otter of the coastline, landscape and localities., 1844.
File
Identifier: Acc.14226/1
Scope and Contents
The survey describes in detail the coast from Thurso to Cape Wrath, via Sandside, the Kyle of Tongue, Loch Eriboll and the Kyle of Durness. It covers subjects such as harbours, prevailing winds, ferries, the landscape, fishing, flora and wildlife, as well as the local economy, history and customs.Included are pencil and watercolour illustrations of 'Captn Slater's Monu[ment]', 'Hillim Inn from Camesendown Anchorage', 'Entrance of Loch Eriboll', 'Anchorage of Camesendown', 'Kyle...
Dates:
1844.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript entitled, 'Description of the north coast of Scotland' [cover], in which is recorded a survey by Captain Henry Charles Otter of the coastline, landscape and localities; with related letters of Otter to the Duke of Sutherland, and a manuscript report on the east coast of Sutherland.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene, volume 1: General survey., 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.14896
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene, volume 2: History of individual clans., 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.14897
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
Manuscript of 'The story of Henrietta Rhense' by William Black, with letters of and to Black., 19th century, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19650
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Manuscript of 'The story of Henrietta Rhense.' It is undated but must have been written between 1866 and 1872 when William Black was living in Catherine Terrace in London (folio 1);
(ii) Letters of William Black, 1877-1879, undated, to William Isbister and Donald Macleod, the publisher and editor of ‘Good Words’, concerning the serial publication and illustration of ‘Macleod of Dare’ (folio 8);
(iii) Letters, 1912, concerning MS.19644 and other books in...
Dates:
19th century, undated.
Manuscript, undated, titled 'Some recreations of a handloom weaver', being a work on natural history written for his family by Alexander Gray (1800-1880), grandfather of Sir Alexander Gray., [Before 1881.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26015
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of a general history and description of the earth, followed by descriptions of animals, illustrated with several watercolours. At the end (folio 203) are miscellaneous notes and verses.
Dates:
[Before 1881.]
Miscellaneous fragments., 16th century, 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.25251
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Watercolour on vellum of the Virgin and Child with an ecclesiastic and a nobleman, mid-18th century (folio 1). This is probably the first leaf of a commission issued by a Doge of Venice. For a similar illumination by the same artist, see ‘Miniature dell’Italia settentrionale nella Fondazione Giorgio Cini’, page 74 (MS.12) and plate.
(ii) 'Ane account of Mr Hooker's Ecclesiasticall Polity from Neal's history of the Puritans', 18th century (folio 2);
(iii) Two...
Dates:
16th century, 18th century.
Miscellaneous items including some printed verse and a water colour painting., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8685/13
Miscellaneous manuscripts from Pitfirrane House, Fife., 1558-1897.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6503-6511
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers derive from four main sources: material relating to the Halketts of Pitfirrane, to the Wedderburns of Gosford, to Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, and to John McFarlane, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1709). The last male heir in the direct line of the Halkett family, Sir James (succeeded 1697), died in 1705, ending the baronetcy created in 1671. On his death his eldest sister, Janet, succeeded to Pitfirrane. She had married Sir Peter Wedderburn, 1st Baronet of Gosford, who now...
Dates:
1558-1897.
Miscellaneous material of John Francis Campbell, including interleaved copies of his `Popular Tales of the West Highlands`, volumes 1 and 2 (Edinburgh, 1860)., 1858-1884.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.51.2.3-51.2.7
Dates:
1858-1884.
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.
Miscellaneous pencil drawings, watercolours and photographs., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.15516
Scope and Contents
Included are drawings of a gateway at Auldbar and of the castle as remodelled in the 1840s and 1850s (folios 1-2).
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous watercolours and sketches of the Faculty of Advocates., ?19th century-?20th century.
File
Identifier: F.R.501
Dates:
?19th century-?20th century.
Notebook from Perth Academy containing material on arithmetic, book-keeping, trigonometry and navigation., 1828.
Item
Identifier: MS.14293
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1828.
Notebook from Perth Academy containing material on geometry, trigonometry, mensuration, fortification and geography., 1828.
Item
Identifier: MS.14292
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Dates:
1828.
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 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.
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.
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.