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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:

Sketchbook of views of scenes in Scotland, England and Wales of Hannah Crichton Stuart

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13563
Scope and Contents

Sketchbook of water-colour and pencil drawings of scenes in Scotland, England and Wales of Hannah Stuart. Places depicted include Goodrich Castle, Caerphilly Castle, Mount Stuart, Rothesay Bay, Loch Lomond, Inversnaid, Inverary, Kenilworth Castle, Culzean Castle, Dalquharran and Taymouth Castle

Dates: 1818-1822, undated

Sketchbooks of Frank H. Young, Civil Engineer, Edinburgh.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13270
Scope and Contents

Four of the five sketchbooks contain humorous pen and ink drawings of domestic, street, railway and sporting scenes. There are several drawings of scenes on a visit to Ballater and Braemar of July 1890. One sketchbook is devoted entirely to scenes outside and inside the Music Hall, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1889-1895, undated

Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6299
Scope and Contents There is an index on folio 1; the songs begin on folio 5.The Scottish songs appear to come mainly from Allan Ramsay's ‘Tea table miscellany’ and David Herd's ‘Ancient and modern Scottish songs’ (1776), though some of the songs may have been picked up by ear, as they include a very debased version of Henry Carey's 'Sally in our alley' (folio 17 verso) and "My heart's in the Highlands" in an apparently unknown version different from that of Burns (folio 81 verso)....
Dates: 18th century.

The Melrosian Annual, 1888

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13258
Scope and Contents Manuscript volume consisting of essays, short stories, anecdotes and verse contributed by past and present members of staff of the firm of Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers. Many of the contributions are reminiscences of the shop and its customers including Professor John Stuart Blackie, f.198, Edinburgh and society. The volume is illustrated with a few pen and ink drawings.Inscribed W.R.M. on inside front cover. With note at the front affirming that this volume...
Dates: 1888, 1917

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 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 "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.

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.

`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.