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Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, etc., chiefly by James Nasmyth, the engineer, with several by his father Alexander Nasmyth and his brother and sister Patrick and Jane, and some collected by him.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3241-3243
Dates:
1796-1885, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Wilkie, Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, together with some sketches and engravings from his paintings.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9835-9840
Dates:
1804-1862.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.4
Scope and Contents
The later entries are unfinished and some are merely pencil sketches. The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 60).The armorial is preceded by a printed form of charge concerning the right to bear arms, 1675 (folio ii verso) and a list of Scottish peers (folio iv). It is followed by an index and, on inverted pages 1-47, by a copy of a list of Scottish families and their arms by Thomas Craufurd,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Journal of a tour to Scotland, 12 August-7 October 1842, kept by Miss S Taylor, of Moore Green, near Birmingham.
Item
Identifier: MS.8927
Scope and Contents
The writer covered some 1,800 miles in all (over 500 of them by rail) and her route extended as far as Inverness in the north, and Iona in the West. The account of her Scottish journey is accompanied by details of her travels in the north of England. The text is profusely illustrated with pencil or ink sketches by the author (a few pencil sketches were made on an earlier journey in 1817), and with nearly 300 small engravings of places visited. A contemporary printed map of...
Dates:
1842.
Journal of a tour to Scotland by Clement Mansfield Ingleby.
File
Identifier: MS.8926
Scope and Contents
The journal is made up from transcripts of letters to his mother written on the journey between 26 August and 8 September 1842. Among the main places visited are Glasgow, Inveraray, Oban, Glencoe, Callander and Edinburgh. The text is ornamented with thirty-three engraved views, several dried plant specimens, and a few pencil sketches. The journal is followed by a 'Dissertation on the Gael and their language' (folio 49), dealing with regional variations in language, intonation,...
Dates:
1842.
Papers of Agnes Miller Parker.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11238
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches, proofs, engravings for book illustrations and 560 letters, mostly concerning her engravings.
Dates:
1913-1972 and undated.
Papers of George Thomson, chiefly concerning Robert Bums.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20438-20439
Dates:
1798-1851.
Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (1950).
Item
Identifier: Acc.13627
Scope and Contents
Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (London: Jonathan Cape, 1950), bound in an album with 4 letters, 1949-1950, of Andrew Young and an undated commentary on the work by Joan Hassall.
Dates:
1938-1950.