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 192 Collections and/or Records:
Pen and ink drawings of views in Edinburgh and vicinity.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9401
Scope and Contents
Possibly made for engraving.
Dates:
1826.
Pen and wash drawings of the processions at the opening of Parliament in 1685 (numbers 2-4), and at the funeral of the Duke of Rothes in 1681 (numbers 5-8).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.22
Scope and Contents
According to a note by Thomas Sommers, dated 1803 (number 1), they are by Roderick Chalmers who was appointed a Herald Painter in 1724. Sir Thomas Innes in `The Riding of Parliament’, pages 95-103, suggests that Chalmers was working from an earlier set of drawings, probably contemporary with the processions. The second drawing in the set of the Riding of Parliament (number 3) is an unfinished pencil sketch, made (according to Sommers`s note) in 1768 by Horace Walpole to replace a...
Dates:
Before 1769.
Pen drawings and Latin quotations illustrative of death, compiled in Flanders.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.33
Scope and Contents
This volume containing a collection of pen drawings, with mottoes and verse (chiefly extracts from the Roman poetry) emblematical of death, bears the following title ‘Admodum Reuerendo Patri Jacobo Stratio per Prouinciam Flandro-Belgicam Præposito Prouinciali Tranfactor in Religione vitæ fuæ suinquagefimum annum Deo Opt. Max. inter communes omnium acclamationes consecranti post placatam Mortam Suinquaginta de morte Emblematis Applaudebat Poësis Aldenardensis’.
Dates:
17th century.
Pen, ink and watercolour design of Sir Frank Mears for a "Civic Museum and Outlook Tower for an American City."
Item
Identifier: Acc.11024
Dates:
1923.
Photocopies of eight letters of Cecile Walton to Brenda Walton.
File
Identifier: Acc.6569
Scope and Contents
With sketches and drawings.
Dates:
circa 1905-circa 1910.
Photocopy of a drawing by Jessie M King of 7 Passage Moret, Paris.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8434
Dates:
Undated
Photograph of drawings of Arthur`s O`on, made by John Adair and annotated by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9439
Dates:
circa 1700.
Photographs of the leaves of the Glenquoich visitors' book containing the names of friends and relatives who visited the Ellices' estates at Invergarry during the late summer and autumn of each year from 1846 to 1863.
File
Identifier: MS.15197
Scope and Contents
The book appears to have belonged to Katherine Jane Ellice, first wife of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), who died in April 1864. Each visitor was asked to sign the book, adding the dates of arrival and departure, his profession, his object in coming and any remarks or complaints. Several took the opportunity to write in verses or poems or to make drawings, which range in size from thumbnail sketches to full-page drawings. Latterly, small photographs of many of the visitors...
Dates:
1846-1863.
Plans and drawings of railway and mining machinery and installations in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, by David Angus.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7217
Dates:
circa 1880-1910.
Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5843-5896
Scope and Contents
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.
Dates:
19th century-mid 20th century.
Pocketbook of Sir John Werden, Diplomat and Politician.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13144
Dates:
1679-1680.
'Poetical Souvenir and Cabinet of Music and Drawing: Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, 1840' containing poetry, mottoes, songs with music, and drawings of Scottish scenery, finely written in a variety of calligraphic hands.
Item
Identifier: MS.8934
Scope and Contents
The choice of shorter poems and the type of ornament suggests some affinity with the work of James Cargill (see MSS.8931-8932), of which it presents a considerable refinement.
Dates:
1840.
Portrait drawing of John Leyden done on board a ship off Madras.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12193
Dates:
1811.
Prints, signed by the artist, of drawings of Corstorphine Castle (as reconstituted) and Strathendry Castle, by Yvonne de Casabianca.
File
Identifier: Acc.10587
Dates:
1992.
"Rambling Thoughts on a Highland Ramble" by L.L. Joseph.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13706
Scope and Contents
Illustrated journal of a tour in Scotland with watercolours and sketches and pasted in photographs and printed cards. The writer travelled by train from St Pancras, London, to Dumfries, Melrose, Galashiels and Edinburgh. He travelled north over the newly opened Forth Bridge to Pitlochry. From Pitlochry, he visits notable landmarks including the Falls of Bruar and the Pass of Killiekrankie. There is a detailed account of the process of making tweed following a visit to the Pitlochry Tweed...
Dates:
1890
Reproduction of a group portrait of the Cowan family by Kenneth Mackay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12485
Dates:
1839.
Scrapbook of Lady Isobel Scott
Item
Identifier: Acc.13515
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook compiled by Lady Isobel Scott, consisting largely of autographs, drawings and photographs of places visited. Most are country houses including Monteviot, Woodburn, Beaulieu, Newbattle Abbey, Kiplin in Northumberland, Fountains Abbey, Bishop`s House, Kennington, Boughton House, Kettering, Falconhurst in Kent, Drumlanrig Castle and Douglas Castle. In addition, there are a number of entries relating to visits to Admiralty House, Devonport, a series of photographs taken on visit to...
Dates:
1899-1904
Signed and decorated address of the Polish patients to Anne Miller, Matron of Path Hospital, Kirkcaldy.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8937
Dates:
1942.
Sketch book of Major-General John Brown, containing drawings in pen, pencil and watercolour of buildings and landscapes in Scotland and Ireland.
Item
Identifier: MS.8026
Scope and Contents
The artist made most of his sketches in August and September 1791, when he travelled from Elgin to Fort Augustus, Aviemore, and Cullen. There are also sketches of Edinburgh and of a few scenes in Ireland, and architectural drawings with measurements, mostly of Elgin Cathedral.
Dates:
1784-1792.
Sketchbook containing drawings in pencil and water-colour of scenes in the Allied camp during the Crimean campaign, 1854-1856.
Item
Identifier: MS.9489
Scope and Contents
The sketchbook also includes two sketches of officers at a court martial in 1850 (folio 29) and a plan of a battery near Sebastopol, 1855-1856 (folio 31 verso).
Dates:
1850-1856.
Sketchbook of drawings in water-colour, pen and pencil by Arthur Elliot, Worthing, including scenes in Scotland and some in Hastings and Guildford, on the Rhine, and in Biarritz, Pau, and Argelès.
Item
Identifier: MS.9373
Dates:
1886-1887, 1889-1890.
Sketchbook of Mrs Kirkpatrick, Edinburgh, containing pencil and wash drawings of Scottish and Swiss views.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7709
Dates:
1893.
Sketchbook of Thomas Henry Graham of views recording a tour in Scotland and northern England
Item
Identifier: Acc.13510
Scope and Contents
Thomas Henry Graham`s sketchbook provides a visual record of a tour in Scotland of 1812. The sketchbook opens with several drawings of views of and near to his home Edmond Castle, in Cumbria. Graham travelled to Scotland via Northumberland and there are drawings of Newcastle, Alnwick, Belford Castle, Bamburgh Castle and the Farne Islands. Drawings in Scotland include views of Dunbar, Edinburgh, the firth of Forth, Holyrood House, Leith Harbour, Glasgow, Dumbarton Castle, the Cairndow Inn at...
Dates:
1812
Sketchbook of twenty-two water-colour drawings of flowers by Anne E Nasmyth, wife of the engineer, James Nasmyth.
Item
Identifier: MS.9371
Dates:
1866-1868.