Engravings. Prints.
Found in 55 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).
Includes a collection of proof engravings for the book and some drawings, notes and papers of Sir James Hall.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Alexander "Antique" Smith forgery of letter of Rob Roy MacGregor.
With portrait of Rob Roy MacGregor and engraving of Sir Joseph Banks.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Business records of A & C Black relating to the works of Sir Walter Scott.
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.
Collection of arms in trick, drawn on engraved shields, made by Sir James Balfour.
The collection was compiled in the first quarter of the 17th century, with additions to 1642. The arms of the gentry are arranged alphabetically by families and are followed (folio 110 verso) by the arms of Scottish peers. On one of the end flyleaves (folio ii verso) are drawings and the blazon of the arms and crest of Viscount Montgomery of the Great Ardes, with Balfour’s signature.
Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, etc., chiefly by James Nasmyth, the engineer, with several by his father Alexander Nasmyth and his brother and sister Patrick and Jane, and some collected by him.
Copy, 17th century, of `Prince Henry his Life, Death and Funeralles`, the life of the Prince of Wales, which was published in 1641 attributed to Sir Charles Cornwallis.
Copy, 17th century, of `The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision`.
Copy, possibly the holograph, of the report by Thomas Tucker on the customs and excise of Scotland.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Wilkie, Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, together with some sketches and engravings from his paintings.
Correspondence and papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and of Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount, on Indian affairs.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
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).
Engraved and manuscript Jacobite keepsake.
Features a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and an emblematic design, possibly for a medal. Includes verses, all within a frame with the stars of British orders.
Engraved portraits of governors of the Dutch East Indies, with historical notes.
Engraving by Edward Burton from the portrait, 1843, of Thomas Chalmers by Thomas Duncan.
Engraving of a portrait of Mary Queen of Scots as a young woman.
Made to commemorate her marriage to the Dauphin in 1558.
Engravings of flowers, hand-coloured in water-colours on vellum.
An additional paper folio containing a drawing of a leaf with measurements in French, has been inserted after folio 12.
Two inscriptions, `Paris April 26 1670` (folio 1) and `Pa Moray` (folio 43) have been deleted. They may be by Patrick Murray of Livingston, who kept an extensive botanic garden.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
'Fitzalan Prayerbook', a 15th-century devotional manuscript written and illuminated in England, bearing the arms of the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
'Geschlecht Buch dess Heiligen Reichs Stat Nürnberg Darinen alle alte und neue Adeliche Geschlecht daraus der Rath von 300 Jaren hero erwöhlth wordn Hierin zusamgebracht Anno 1610’, being histories, in different hands, of Nürnberg families.
Each history is preceded by an engraving of a figure with the arms of the family.