Drawings. Visual works.
Found in 1220 Collections and/or Records:
Collections of drawings by Katherine Jane Ellice., 1844-1870, undated.
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Collections of drawings consisting chiefly of watercolour and pencil sketches., 1844-1870, undated.
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Colour transparencies, 2006, of artworks by Alasdair Gray, 1950s-2005.
Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Commonplace book of George Lewis Augustus Douglas containing "jeus d'esprit", poems, anecdotes, riddles and drawings., 1799, 1808, 1819, undated.
Commonplace book of Helen Fergusson, consisting of miscellaneous verse including a poem of Lord Hailes, together with prose compositions and drawings., 1816-1826.
Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson (1800-1849), was the eldest son of Sir James Fergusson, 4th Baronet of Kilkerran, and Jean, second daughter of Lord Hailes. He inherited Newhailes in 1838 on the death of his aunt, Christian Dalrymple, when he assumed the additional surname of Dalrymple. Sir Charles was admitted Advocate in 1822, and in 1829 married Helen, daughter of David Boyle of Shewalton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Composite volume consisting of several commonplace books of William Thoirs of Muiresk, born 1666, covering the years 1705-1724, but also containing earlier material.
Copy in an unidentified hand of ‘Memorial offered to the Honourable Commissioners of Excise concerning the Mensuration of Tuns or Backs that have some irregularity in the Figure and Situation of the Bottom ... To which is added a Method of correcting the common Tables, and some new Theorems` by Colin Maclaurin.
There is a pen drawing of a ship on folio vi. This is a work of applied mathematics written in order to enable customs officers to gauge the contents of molasses barrels used in the port of Glasgow.
'Copy of original notes and drawings from life of the plants collected by me during the Speke & Grant Expedition in /60/63. J.A. Grant’, volume 2., 1860-1863.
'Copy of original notes and drawings from life of the plants collected by me during the Speke & Grant Expedition in /60/63. J.A. Grant’; with original bindings., 1860-1863.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter presented to James V of Scotland when he was invested with the order in 1535., 1535.
The text is preceded by a large drawing in colour (most of the silver in which is oxidized) of the royal arms of England (impaled with those of St George) and of Scotland (folio ii verso). The preface and the first of the statutes are introduced by large illuminated initials and the remainder by small gold initials within alternate red and blue squares. Lacking the seal formerly attached to the cords visible at folios 1 and 18 verso.
Corrected proofs of James J Guthrie's 'These green pastures: essays in the spirit of Sussex', which was to have been issued by the Caravel Press., 1952.
The contents consist of galley proofs, lacking the foreword (folio 1), a paste-up of page proofs, lacking some of the poems and the three last essays (folio 18), and two pen drawings (folio 60).
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver., 1921-1944, undated.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Correspondence, 1921-1944, undated (folio 1);
(ii) Miscellaneous papers chiefly on climbing, with notes for Peter Roderick Oliver's articles on mountaineering, 1936-1942, undated (folio 16);
(iii) Plans, mainly of Himalayan mountains, and drawings of mountaineering scenes, 1930-1936, undated (folio 79);
(iv) Miscellaneous military papers and plans, 1936-1945, undated (folio 103).
Correspondence and papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family., 1681-1853.
Correspondence and papers of Ruari McLean with Cynthia and David Pettiward.
Concerning McLean`s introduction to "The Last Cream Bun" (London, 1984) with drawings by Roger Pettiward, pseudonym Paul Crum.
Correspondence and proof-sheets of James J Guthrie (1874-1952), the artist and printer who established the Pear Tree Press.
Correspondence, notebooks, notes and papers of Helen Haldane, née Spurway, second wife of J B S Haldane., 1934-1976, undated.
Correspondence of John Richardson, of Kirklands, and his family, with poems, prayers and drawings., 1801-1874, undated.
Correspondence of John Richardson, of Kirklands, and his family, with some verse and other papers., 1807-1887, undated.
Correspondence of various members of the Brown family., 1862-1880, undated.
At the end of the volume are cuttings from the ‘West India Committee Circular’, 1927 and 1933, relating to Major-General John Brown, and portraits and photographs of members of the Brown family. Also included is a lock of horse hair from the tail of 'Alma', the horse ridden by George Brown in to the Battle of Alma, 21 September 1854.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Dairy of Thomas Stewart Traill., September-October 1844.
While in Southampton, Thomas Stewart Traill tended to his sick step-son, William Watson.
Descriptions and drawings, by David Donald, a mechanic from Glasgow, of machinery in Holland, France, and Belgium., 18th century.
Included is a letter of David Donald to his patron, Lord Sinclair, copied by a contemporary from the originals in Lord Sinclair's possession, and preceded by an account, by the copyist, of Donald's career. At the end are some descriptions of machines in Great Britain.