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:
Tracing - harbour, showing proposed repairs on pier end - Ardrossan, Ayr - surveyed by D & T Stevenson., 1883.
Item
Identifier: MS.5844 (126)
Dates:
1883.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with A.
Two home-produced magazines and related printed books (annotated) of George Henry Nettle.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11805
Scope and Contents
The 1914 magazine "The Rambler" contains many pastel/pencil drawings and photographs of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison`s funeral procession, 1913.
Dates:
circa 1894-1939.
Two letters of James Anderson, economist and writer on agriculture, to Messrs Beilby and Bewick, engravers, Newcastle, regarding their work, with sepia drawings of agricultural machinery., 1790-1791.
File
Identifier: MS.573, folios 81-83
Dates:
1790-1791.
Two letters of Tom Scott to Mrs John Turnbull, with a drawing of Hornshole Bridge.
File
Identifier: Acc.8827
Dates:
1918-1919.
Two manuscripts by William Makepeace Thackeray., 1823-? 1850.
File
Identifier: MS.42573
Scope and Contents
Folio 1 : manuscript, ? 1828 (watermark), "Byron and Marceau", relating to Lord Byron`s interest in the French general François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, about whom he composed a eulogy in "Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage" (Third Canto, LVI and LVII). Thackeray`s manuscript includes a copy of a letter to, and a copy of a letter of Byron concerning Marceau-Desgraviers : (i) 30 January 1823 : Madame Serjent, Marceau-Desgravier`s elder sister,...
Dates:
1823-? 1850.
Two pen and ink drawings of Jessie M King, "Passage Barbett" and Passage Moret".
File
Identifier: Acc.7048
Scope and Contents
For an unpublished book of historic Paris views.
Dates:
Undated
Two portraits of Austen Henry Layard, with a portrait of his wife, Enid., 1852-1963.
File
Identifier: MS.42408
Scope and Contents
Folio 1. Photographic reproduction, ?1963 or a little before, of a portrait of Austen Henry Layard from an original black chalk sketch, circa 1852, by G.F. Watts. The image has been reduced significantly in comparison to the original, which is held in the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 1006). The reproduction would appear to have been created to be used in a publication as the recto has been marked at the margins by way of...
Dates:
1852-1963.
Two "visiting books" compiled by Lady Edith Campbell.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6973
Scope and Contents
Containing photographs, watercolours, drawings, and signatures of guests.
Dates:
1894-1903.
Typescript, 1932, of 'Four good years': excerpts from Violet Jacob's letters to her mother, 1895-1896, and copies of her diaries, 1897-1900., 1895-1900.
Item
Identifier: MS.27414
Scope and Contents
The typescript was published as 'Diaries and letters from India, 1895-1900', edited by Carol Anderson, (Edinburgh, 1990).
Dates:
1895-1900.
Typescripts of seven short stories by Mollie Hunter, with original cover artwork for "The Third Eye" (Glasgow, 1988).
File
Identifier: Acc.12981
Scope and Contents
Typescripts, with some manuscript corrections, of the following stories, all undated:
The Last Pict
Saint Columba and the Loch Ness Monster
How Loch Ness Got Its Name
The Very Weird Tale of Moon Eye
Tales from the Glen
The Tall Tale of Ten Frogs
The Story of Deirdre
Including original artwork by William Grandison for the cover of The Third Eye (Glasgow: Drew, 1988).
Dates:
Circa 1988, undated.
Typescripts, proofs, notes and drawings relating to Nigel Tranter`s "The Fortified House in Scotland".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12666
Scope and Contents
Includes sound recordings of this and other works by Tranter.
Dates:
circa 1962-1995.
Various manuscripts and fragments, almost all undated, in the autograph of Hugh Miller., 1819-[1852, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.7518
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Two 'Descriptive Letters' probably intended for publication and signed 'M--r', concerning a visit to Edinburgh in 1824 (folio 1);(ii) Fragmentary notebooks, 1819-1820, undated, mainly containing poems, some of which were published with many alterations in ‘Poems written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason’ (Edinburgh, 1829) (folio 10);(iii) Description of the parish of Cromarty: basically the text of the description...
Dates:
1819-[1852, or before.]
Volume containing chiefly prints, with a few drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists., [?1827.]
File
Identifier: MS.5791
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The images are nearly all of Italian scenes, and seem to have been collected during a tour of Italy in 1827.
Dates:
[?1827.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Journals, commonplace books and letters from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Volumes containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists.
Volume containing for the most part plates for ‘Thermography’ by John Francis Campbell, along with experiments, drawings and notes concerning the solar spectrum., 1883, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.19
Dates:
1883, or before.
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.
Volume containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists., [?1827.]
File
Identifier: MS.5792
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The images are nearly all of Italian scenes, and seem to have been collected during a tour of Italy in 1827.
Dates:
[?1827.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Journals, commonplace books and letters from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Volumes containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists.
Volumes containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists., [?1827.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5791-5792
Scope and Contents
The images are nearly all of Italian scenes, and seem to have been collected during a tour of Italy in 1827.
Dates:
[?1827.]
`Walk Along the Dionard`, large composite artwork by Marshall Anderson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13329- is now part of Acc.13227
Scope and Contents
Large composite artwork, created from sections of a number of drawings made by Marshall Anderson during a walk through Strath Dionard in 1997. The drawing sections are mounted onto linen backing, the whole is designed to fold like a map. There are several similar works in Acc.13227, of which this is the largest example. The medium is Neo-art water-soluble wax pastel.
Dates:
1997
Worksheets and corrected proofs of Hugh MacDiarmid, "On a Raised Beach".
File
Identifier: Acc.9246
Scope and Contents
With drawings by Reinhard Behrens.
Dates:
1985.
Zoology notebook, undated, of J B S Haldane containing for the most part, anatomical drawings in pencil of various, especially marine, creatures., [?1911-?1912.]
Item
Identifier: MS.20577
Scope and Contents
The notebook is undated, but doubtless compiled at the same time as MS 20576. Most of the volume is blank.
Dates:
[?1911-?1912.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane.
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Notebooks of J B S Haldane containing notes on various topics and first versions of lectures, books and papers on scientific topics, and on some of public concern.