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Engravings. Prints.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to prints on paper incorporating impressions of a reverse design created on a printing plate, usually copper, into which the design has been incised (engraved) using burins or gravers. Historically, ""engravings"" has sometimes been incorrectly used to refer to all prints, regardless of the specific technique. For prints made from designs engraved on a flat wooden block, use ""wood cuts""; for prints made from a plate that is etched rather than engraved, use ""etchings"" .

Found in 219 Collections and/or Records:

13 drawings by Edward Blore for Sir James Hall`s "Essay on the Origin, History, and Principles of Gothic Architecture" (1813).

 File
Identifier: Acc.12083
Scope and Contents

Includes a collection of proof engravings for the book and some drawings, notes and papers of Sir James Hall.

Dates: 1809-1812.

Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates: Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.

Alexander "Antique" Smith forgery of letter of Rob Roy MacGregor.

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Identifier: Acc.9255
Scope and Contents

With portrait of Rob Roy MacGregor and engraving of Sir Joseph Banks.

Dates: 19th century.

Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Battles and sieges of the War of Liberation (1813). [Small plans of towns fought over or besieged 1813, pasted into scrapbook]. , 1813

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(144)
Scope and Contents

1: Luneburg, Czenstochau, Thorn, Dannigkow, Spandau, Gr Gorschen, Bantzen, Haynau, Hoyerswerda, Luckau, Lowenberg, Goldberg, Gr 2: Beeren, Katzback, Dresden, Hegelsberg, Plagwitz, Kulm, Dennewitz, An der Gohrde, Wartenburg, Dohna, Liebertwolkwitz, Lindenau, Mockern, Wachau, Dresden, Leipzig, Freiburg, Hanau, Schonebeck, Hockheim, Modlin, Dresden, Zamosk, Stettin, Doestburg, Zutphen. 3: Arnheim, Zara, Breda, Gertrundenburg, Friedrichsort, Danzig, Torgau.

Dates: Other: 1813

Business records of A & C Black relating to the works of Sir Walter Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9765
Scope and Contents

Concerning the publication of the works of Sir Walter Scott, the copyrights of the Waverley Novels and to the Centenary celebrations of 1871 and 1932.

Dates: circa 1849-1932.

Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 1., 1789-[circa 1820], undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22 (1 of 7), numbers 1a-7h
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Aberdeen (1a) Drawing, undated, probably a prospect of Aberdeen. (1b) Engraving, 1812, ‘Plan of the city and harbour of Aberdeen. and improvements.’, from a copy of the ‘History of Aberdeen’, by Walter Thom, volume 1, preceding the title page. (2a) Drawing, 1815, annotated “Aberdeen [St Machar’s] Cath[edra]l. S. E. view, from a sketch by Mr G. Smith”. (2b) Drawing, 1815, annotated “Aberdeen [St Machar’s] Cathedral – West View – From a sketch by Mr. G....
Dates: 1789-[circa 1820], undated.

Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 2., 1783-1820, undated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22 (2 of 7), numbers 8a-16
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Aberdeenshire (8a) Drawing, undated, in ink with areas of wash, of Undy Chapel, ‘by Mr Grimm’ (?1794 if by S H Grimm). (8b) Drawings, 1809, ‘Cape stones on the garden wall of, Inverugie, Castle. The letters GB and date 1670 appear to have been done at a much later period than the sculptured coach, which is probably three or four hundred years older. 9th Novr. 1809.’ (8c) Drawing, undated, ‘Fyvie [Castle] by Mr Cordiner [probably James Cordiner]’. (9a) Sketch,...
Dates: 1783-1820, undated.

Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 3., 1761-1820.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22 (3 of 7), numbers 17a-22b
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Angus (17a) Drawing, ‘Restennet [i.e Restenneth] Priory, south view, 1785’. Reproduced in ‘The antiquities of Scotland’ by Francis Grose, volume 2, facing page 263. For a rough sketch of this view see (17e verso). (17b) Sketch ‘Restennet [i.e Restenneth] Priory, south west view, Oct. 12 1820.’ (17c) Sketch, ‘[Interior of] Restennet, Priory looking east, 18 Sept. 1814.’ (17d) Sketch, ‘Restennet [i.e Restenneth] Priory – S.W. view, 17th Septr. 1814.’ (17e recto)...
Dates: 1761-1820.