Caricatures.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Representations, often portraits, that exaggerate certain features or characteristics to humorous or ludicrous effect.
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Scrap-book, containing caricatures, some dated 1813, and other drawings, chiefly by John Gibson Lockhart, engravings, etchings, lithographs, etc., 1813-1857, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.1626
Scope and Contents
The scrap-book includes the drawing of Fenella dancing before Charles II (? by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe) (number 78), that of John Gibson Lockhart and others riding to Selkirk, 1823 (number 80), and the portrait of Charles Scott, 1820 (number 82), all reproduced in Andrew Lang’s ‘Life and Letters of ... Lockhart’, and a portrait of Tom Purdie, 1822 (number 79). The album also contains ‘Select Sonnets’ by George Huntly Gordon (printed, undated), with an autograph dedication by the author to...
Dates:
1813-1857, undated.
Some miscellaneous letters of and to John Francis Campbell relating either to his work on Gaelic folklore or to that on thermography., 1857-1883, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.6a
Scope and Contents
Notable correspondents include Lord Lorne and the anthropologist, General Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
Other miscellaneous items are included at the end of the correspondence: some highland tales and poems collected by Hector Maclean, a few printed illustrations from ‘Frost and Fire’ and three undated caricatures drawn by Lord Archibald Campbell.
Dates:
1857-1883, and undated.
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.
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Miscellaneous small items of John Francis Campbell.
Two portraits of John Cam Hobhouse., 2nd quarter 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.42302
Scope and Contents
Printed, coloured caricature of Hobhouse, ‘Earl Hobby and Viscount Harangue, City of Westminster’: folio 1;
Printed portrait, ? 1836, "Sir John Cam Hobhouse", with a biographical sketch: folio 2.
Dates:
2nd quarter 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning John Cam Hobhouse.
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Miscellaneous papers concerning John Cam Hobhouse.