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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 88 Collections and/or Records:

Two journal-letters, of Robert Michael Ballantyne from the Bell Rock Lighthouse.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11962
Scope and Contents

Includes two watercolour paintings of the lighthouse, one showing the building from the reef, the other being an interior view; with two other letters of Ballantyne concerning lifeboats, and many later letters of R M Ballantyne, his family and friends.

Dates: circa 1864-1865.

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).

 File
Identifier: MS.5318
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1941-1942.

Two "visiting books" compiled by Lady Edith Campbell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6973
Scope and Contents

Containing photographs, watercolours, drawings, and signatures of guests.

Dates: 1894-1903.

Two-volume commonplace book compiled by David R Robertson for his daughter Helen Stewart.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14249/1-2
Scope and Contents

A commonplace book in two volumes compiled by David R Robertson and inscribed to his daughter Helen Stewart for her birthday: 'two volumes of memorials and happy memories; comprising notes and sketches of my father's and mother's country and also of our familiar holiday haunts'. The volumes contain poetry, paintings and drawings, illuminated lettering, and extracts from books on history and Scottish folklore.

Dates: 1894-1943.

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 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 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.

Watercolours and sketches of scenes in Scotland.

 File
Identifier: MS.9842
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Watercolours of landscapes in Argyll, Bute (Loch Ranza), Dunbartonshire, Inverness-shire, Perthshire and Roxburghshire (Melrose), with three unidentified scenes (folio 1); (ii) Sepia sketches of a town (possibly Thurso) and three unidentified scenes (folio 25); (iii) A series of ink and wash sketches of landscapes in Argyll, Dunbartonshire, Inverness-shire and Perthshire, with seven unidentified scenes (folio 29); (iv) Pencil sketch, 1859, of Branklin Lynn,...
Dates: 19th century.

Watercolours of Mary Frances Wicksteed painted on tours of Scotland and Wales

 File
Identifier: Acc.13998
Content Description

64 watercolours, mainly landscapes, painted on tours of Scotland (1871) and North Wales (1876). Also 16 small watercolours of Charles Philips Trevelyn. Mary Frances Wicksteed was governess to the Philips and Trevelyan families.

Dates: 1871-1876