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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 1221 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.7.14
Scope and Contents The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates: 16th century-1924.

Papers of the Gall and Inglis families.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6437
Scope and Contents

Including music, drawings and notes.

Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray., ? 1828-? 1863.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42572-42573
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: ? 1828-? 1863.

Papers relating to 'Raven seek thy brother', by Gavin Maxwell, containing typescript, correspondence, drawings, photocopies and photographs., [?Circa 1968], undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/49-57
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: [?Circa 1968], undated.

Papers relating to 'Ring of bright water', by Gavin Maxwell, containing manuscripts, typescripts, drawings and photographs., [?Circa 1960], undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/20-32
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: [?Circa 1960], undated.

Papers relating to tours and expeditions of James Wordie., 1865-1959.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-95
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).

Dates: Majority of material found within 1865-1959.

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.

Pencil drawings of occupations in Malabar., ?4th quarter of 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.13815
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates: ?4th quarter of 18th century-1st quarter of 19th century.

Pencil drawings of Robert Gibb chiefly of details of sixteenth-century costume with accompanying notes., 1871-1872.

 File
Identifier: MS.10473
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: 1871-1872.

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.

Photographs and drawings of Isobel V S Dunlop., 1911, 1955-1961, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9121/25-27
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes music scores, correspondence and papers concerning the Saltire Society and Saltire Music Group.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1911, 1955-1961, undated.

Photographs and other material for illustrations for ‘The Isle of Arran’ by Robert McLellan, not all of which were published., [1968-1975.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26425
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

Dates: [1968-1975.]

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.

Photographs, snapshots and drawings chiefly of, or concerning the work of, Helen Haldane., [?1945-?1967.]

 File
Identifier: MS.20654
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Photographs of newts and fish used in experimental work at University College, London (cf MS.20649) between 1945 and 1956 (folio 1); (ii) Snapshots of Helen Haldane and colleagues taken in October 1960 at Gangapur (folio 98); (iii) Various snapshots taken in unidentified circumstances (folio 113); (iv) Photographs and drawings concerning Haldane’s paper on tortoises, a copy of the text of which is at MS 20653, folio 174 (folio 151).

Dates: [?1945-?1967.]