Byres, James, of Tonley, antiquary and architect, 1734-1817
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Business Papers mostly of Patrick Moir., 1797-1817.
Correspondence relates to Moir's efforts to reserve his uncle’s (Byres) objets d’art left in the Scotch College in Rome from the depredations of the French in 1797, with papers relating to the attempts to recover them, 1797-1817.
Disposition and settlement 1811 and 1816 of James Byres., 1811,1816.
Family letters of James Byres to Patrick Moir., 1793-1806.
Includes a letter of 1797 from possibly the engraver Christopher Norton.
Further letters to and concerning James Byres., 1774-1805.
Letters include that of Lady Powis to James Byres concerning his engravings with Byres’ draft reply, 1805; André François Baron d’Anstrude to (almost certainly) Sir John Anstruther, 2nd Bart of that Ilk, 1774; and a copy of a letter of Sir John Hippisley to Henry, Cardinal York, 1800, from the papers of A P Trotter.
Notebook of accounts between James Byres and Patrick Moir.
Relates to Byres's stay in Rome.
Notes and drafts on archaeological subjects., 1797.
File including drafts in Byres’ hand of a caption for his volume of engravings of Etruscan tombs, drafts of a proposed work on ancient Italy; a notebook? Filled by Patrick Moir with notes on the archaeology of Rome, mostly copied from Andrew Lumisden Remarks on the Antiquities of Rome, London, 1797, including appendices IV and V of that work in extenso; and a précis of the first chapter of Mario Guarnacci: Origin Italione, Luca 1767.