Drawings. Visual works.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Visual works produced by drawing, which is the application of lines on a surface, often paper, by using a pencil, pen, chalk, or some other tracing instrument to focus on the delineation of form rather than the application of color. This term is often defined broadly to refer to computer-generated images as well. (AAT) Include sketches under 'Drawings', but ignore doodles, unless particularly noteworthy. (NLS) In the published catalogues this heading was used for pictures. The heading 'Pictures' was used for all lists of pictures and for descriptions of treatises on pictures. (NLS) .
Found in 1220 Collections and/or Records:
12 drawings of David Roberts made for his projected part-work "The Antiquities of Scotland".
File
Identifier: Acc.11990
Scope and Contents
Nine of the drawings were etched for this set in extremely limited numbers.
Dates:
1831.
13 drawings by Edward Blore for Sir James Hall`s "Essay on the Origin, History, and Principles of Gothic Architecture" (1813).
File
Identifier: Acc.12083
Scope and Contents
Includes a collection of proof engravings for the book and some drawings, notes and papers of Sir James Hall.
Dates:
1809-1812.
16 pencil drawings by Alexander Nasmyth for "Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley" (Edinburgh, 1821).
File
Identifier: Acc.11900
Dates:
circa 1821.
16 plans and drawings for the construction of the Royal Border Bridge.
File
Identifier: Acc.6874
Dates:
1847-1850.
“A fortnight's cruise in the Ailsa from June 29 to July 13 1892”.
Item
Identifier: MS.9231
Scope and Contents
An account of a voyage in an RNYC yacht round the Western Islands, by an unidentified author, illustrated with photographs, water-colour drawings, and pen sketches of the party, crew and scenery.
The party includes Jessie, Rae, Fred and cousin A. Rintoul and others.
The crew were Captain Peter MacNichol, Jack MacMillan, John MacAllister, Ronald MacDonald, Malcolm Wilkie and Dugald MacGillivray.
Dates:
1892.
A roll containing drawings of Scottish crests, probably by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., Mid 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.44
Dates:
Mid 17th century.
Account book, early 19th century, of Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael.
File
Identifier: Acc.4299
Scope and Contents
With drawings for "A new Edition of Pennecuick`s Works, 1816", and a monologue, 19th century, "Lady Gifford".
Dates:
19th century.
Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13651/1-3
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1838-1864, 2013-2014, undated.
Album containing drawings in various media, pasted in, some by Katherine Jane Ellice, but chiefly by friends and relatives., 1854-1855, 1858, 1870, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.15173
Scope and Contents
Most drawings depict scenes, both in Scotland and abroad.
Dates:
1854-1855, 1858, 1870, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Collections of drawings consisting chiefly of watercolour and pencil sketches.
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Collections of drawings by Katherine Jane Ellice.
Album containing drawings pasted in, and some tipped in, drawn chiefly whilst cruising in the "Lotus" and the "Ladye" off the Scottish coast., 1846, 1854, 1856-1863, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.15172
Scope and Contents
Several leaves have been torn out at various places throughout the volume and folios 82-98 are blank.
Dates:
1846, 1854, 1856-1863, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Collections of drawings consisting chiefly of watercolour and pencil sketches.
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Collections of drawings by Katherine Jane Ellice.
Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.
Item
Identifier: MS.3646
Scope and Contents
The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).
Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.
Dates:
1851, 1858-1919, undated.
Album containing pencil drawings, water-colours, and poems by Edward Lear., 1829, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3321 [H.S.954]
Album entitled 'Record of work done by PM', containing press-cuttings, 1882-1917, photographs and printed items. Including loose press-cuttings, 1933, 1951, notes and drawings and further copies of the printed items., 1882-1917, 1933, 1951.
File
Identifier: Acc.3501/30
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1882-1917, 1933, 1951.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Works and correspondence of James Pittendrigh MacGillivray.
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Further papers of and concerning James Pittendrigh Macgillivray; including letters of and to Ehrna Mycale Macgillivray.
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Albums of press-cuttings, mainly of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Album of drawings and prints probably collected by James Drummond
Item
Identifier: Acc.9605
Dates:
mid 19th century.
Album of drawings in pencil and watercolour, collected by Caroline, Marchioness of Queensberry, in 1833.
Item
Identifier: MS.10784
Scope and Contents
Many of the drawings are by E C Douglas, possibly Lady Queensberry's sister-in-law Elizabeth. The subjects include humorous sketches, animals and landscapes.
Dates:
1833.
Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13363
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1845
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Album of Eliza Boothby containing verses and drawings by various hands.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12164
Dates:
1835.
Album of Elizabeth Johnston containing drawings and verses by her friends., 1842-1871, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.26259
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.
Dates:
1842-1871, undated.
Album of Evelyne Radford, daughter of Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, Walthamstow, Essex, relating to country house parties in England and at Kildonan Lodge, Sutherland, to a cruise and a holiday in the South of France.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13196
Scope and Contents
The album is a record of the weekend and holiday social life of the Radford family, friends of the Drummond family, the Viscounts Strathallan. Evelyn Radford was the spinster daughter of Mrs and Mrs Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, near Walthamstow, Essex. Places visited include: Swaylands House, Penshurt, Kent; West Garty Lodge and Kildonan, Sutherland; Hale End Manor, Essex; Alderwasley, Matlock, Derbyshire; Fornham Park, Bury St Edmunds; The Briars, Byfleet, Surrey; Cranborne Hall, Windsor...
Dates:
1893-1898.
Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
File
Identifier: MS.18000
Scope and Contents
The album includes letters from several prominent Edinburgh figures of the early 19th century such as Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk Register, and Edward W A Drummond Hay, Principal Clerk, Lyon Office. Both men appear to have been in regular correspondence with William Ford. Amongst the printed items is an "Inventory of Work done for the State by his Majesty's Printer in Scotland 1642-1647" (Edinburgh, 1815), edited by Thomas Thomson. There are also a number of newspaper reports of meetings of...
Dates:
1810-1830.
Album of topographical views and figure studies of a tour in Scotland and England, of Revd. George Ernest Howman. Places visited in Scotland include Bridge of Fyers, Blair Atholl, Killicrankie, Dunkeld, Killin, Callendar, the Trossachs, Stirling, Dunblane, Scone Palace, Perth, Castle Huntly, Dundee, Leuchars, St Andrews, Loch Leven, Linlithgow, Craigmillar Castle, Roslin Chapel and Melrose.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13197
Scope and Contents
Single volume with 16 drawings loosely enclosed.ff.1-58 Tour of Scotland and return through England, 1820f.1 Bridge of Fyers from above the Upper Fall, Augt. 17 f.2 Lower Fall of the Bruar near Blair Athol, Augt. 21f.3 In the Pass of Killiekrankie, Augt. 22f.4 Cottage near Fascalie Augt. 22 f.5 Vale of the Tay. Looking towards Dunkeld. Birnham Hill in ye distance Augt. 22f.6 The two Parent Larches. Dunkeld....
Dates:
1820-1826.
Album of verses, riddles and drawings.
Item
Identifier: MS.10783
Scope and Contents
Most of the entries are dated from 1825 to 1828, and some were made at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The book belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Russell Davison, of the Wilson family of Roxburghshire.
Dates:
1822-1853.
Album of Walter Bowman.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10717
Scope and Contents
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Dates:
1764.