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Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.
Drawings made on a tour in Scotland in 1845. Places visited include Dalkieth, Edinburgh, Roslin chapel, the Trossachs, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Ballahulish, Kinlochmore, Loch Leven, Dunolly Castle, Inverary, Newbattle and Hoddam Castle.
Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Diaries, letters and miscellaneous papers, 1944-1989, of and relating to John Armstrong.
John Armstrong studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was a contemporary of Eduardo Paolozzi who is mentioned in his diaries. After leaving college he worked as an artist and displays manager, then went on to work for the DHSS, Register Generals Office and elsewhere in Edinburgh. He later ran his own business. He continued painting throughout his life and also wrote fiction inspired by his bohemian lifestyle.
Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.
Elevation and cross sections of railway embankment on the suburban and South side Junction Railway, on Craigmiller estate, Edinburgh.
Journal of `A few weeks among the Blue-bells of Scotland, memoranda of men, manners and mountains above the Tweed`
Journal of `A Month in Scotland by M`, Rev. J.J. Twist, Rector of Holy Innocents Church, Manchester.
Letter and two geological drawings of Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh, by James Hall.
Pen and ink drawings of views in Edinburgh and vicinity.
Possibly made for engraving.
Pocketbook of Sir John Werden, Diplomat and Politician.
Sketchbook of Thomas Henry Graham of views recording a tour in Scotland and northern England
Sketchbooks of Frank H. Young, Civil Engineer, Edinburgh.
Four of the five sketchbooks contain humorous pen and ink drawings of domestic, street, railway and sporting scenes. There are several drawings of scenes on a visit to Ballater and Braemar of July 1890. One sketchbook is devoted entirely to scenes outside and inside the Music Hall, Edinburgh.