Silhouettes.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portraits cut from paper and mounted on a contrasting background; also, by extension, images showing no interior detail set against a contrasting background.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Letters collected by Allan Paton Park., 1799-1903, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3218
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of R B Sheridan, undated (folio 1);(ii) Letters of Alexander Wilson, the ornithologist, to Charles Orr, 1799-1802, undated, with a silhouette of Wilson; most of the letters are published in A P Paton, ‘Wilson the Ornithologist’ (London, 1863) (folio 4);(iii) Lord Byron's family: bills of his mother, 1803, and of the poet himself, 1811, and letters of his daughter, 1839, and wife, 1844 (folio 33);(iv)...
Dates:
1799-1903, undated.
Miscellaneous letters, papers, engravings and photographs of the Abercromby family., 1798-1887, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24774
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) An engraving (16 x 10.5 centimetres) by John Kay of Edinburgh, 1798, of General Sir Ralph Abercromby reviewing his troops (folio 1);
(ii) An engraving (18 x 11.5 centimetres) by Thomas Kelly of London, 1816, depicting the 'Death of Sir Ralph Abercrombie', 1801 (folio 2);
(iii) An engraving, (13 x 10.5 centimetres), undated, and artist not known, of a portrait of Sir Ralph Abercromby (folio 3);
(iv) A photograph, (13 x 10 centimetres), undated, by the Arundel...
Dates:
1798-1887, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family, political and personal correspondence and papers of the Abercromby family, chiefly of James Abercromby (1776-1858), 1st Baron Dunfermline, with some correspondence and papers of his wife Marianne (died 1874), and of their son Ralph, 2nd Baron and diplomatist (1803-1868), and his family.
Miscellaneous papers of the Elliot family of Minto., 1815-1880.
Series
Identifier: MSS.13470-13472
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1815-1880.
Photographs and silhouettes of members of the Paul family., 1645-1848, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5147
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Annotated envelope (folio 1) containing miniature portrait photographs of:
W Paul (folios 2-5);
R Paul Junr (folios 6-7);
unidentified sitters (folios 8-11);
annotated wrapper (folio 12) containing five miniature portrait photographs of the same unidentified sitter (folios 13-17).Annotated paper bag (folio 18) containing a photographic copy of a published portrait of Charles Williamson (folio 19).Silhouette, 1848, of T...
Dates:
1645-1848, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Correspondence and papers of the Paul family.
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Papers concerning the education, careers, activities and interests of the Paul family.
Silhouette of the Honourable Frederick William Elliot (died 1815), son of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1815.
Item
Identifier: MS.13470
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1815.