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:
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 4., 1789-1820, undated.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22 (4 of 7), numbers 23a-26d
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Argyllshire
(23a) Sketch, ‘Kilmund [i.e. Kilmun] E view, Aug. 1802.
(23b) Drawing, “Col. Ch. Kilmund [i.e. St. Mund’s Collegiate Church, Kilmun] N E view, August 1802.”
(23c) Notes and sketches, 1789, of John Melvill, ‘An oblique view of ye remains of ye Collegiate Church of Kilmun’.
(23d) Sketch, ‘Collegiate church, Kilmund [i.e.Kilmun] – S E view, Aug. 1802.’
(23e) Drawing of effigies at St. Mund’s Collegiate Church, Kilmun, ‘Monument at Kilmund, Aug....
Dates:
1789-1820, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton; with original binding.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1.
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 6., 1784-1816, undated.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22 (6 of 7), numbers 30d-36a
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Dumfriesshire
(30d) Drawing, [1811], of bell from Holywood Abbey, Dumfriesshire.
(30e) Drawing, [1811], of bell, and its inscription, from Holywood Abbey, Dumfriesshire. See also Adv.MS.30.5.23 (187a)-(188b) for rubbings of the bell.
(30f) Note, 1811, concerning drawings of bells (30d-30e) from Holywood, Abbey.
(30g) Sketch, ‘Stone lying at the west door of the church of Holywood, Oct. 27 1811.’ Berwickshire
(31) Plan, 1816, ‘Remains of the old church...
Dates:
1784-1816, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton; with original binding.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1.
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 7., 1789-1822, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22 (7 of 7), numbers 36b-42f
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Dunbartonshire
(36b recto) Drawing, 1822, of remains of College Bow arch, Dumbarton.
(36b verso) Rough sketch, 1822, ‘The College Bow, Dumbarton. Recd. from Mr J[ohn] Gilleson, Edr. 26 Mar. 1822.’Haddington (East Lothian)
(36c) Engraving, undated (watermark 1816), ‘Dunglass [Castle] by Mr Woodyer from a drawing of Mr [?Paul] Sandby.’
(36d) Plan, 1822, of Dunglass, Collegiate Church, by John Gilleson.Dumfriesshire
(37a) Drawing, October...
Dates:
1789-1822, and undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton; with original binding.
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Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1.
Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton; with original binding., 1781-1820, undated
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.22-30.5.23
Scope and Contents
The collections is supplemented by a large number of finished drawings (some in colour), a few maps, and some architectural plans and elevations, professionally drawn for Hutton by others, or done as favours by some of his correspondents, together with a number of separately acquired prints, and engraved views cut out from contemporary printed booksThe collection, which was previously bound in two large volumes, was subsequently dismounted and the items individually attached to...
Dates:
1781-1820, undated
Collection of arms in trick, drawn on engraved shields, made by Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.37
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1600-1642.
Collection of maps., 1765-?1845.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some of the maps were acquired by General Sir George Murrary during his active service, others later for historical purposes. They are arranged as follows: Peninsula (numbers 1-88); France (numbers 89-95); uncertain locality (numbers 95-96); Canada (numbers 97-106); Flanders (numbers 107-133); various military actions, 1761-1846, and undated, especially those of 1813 (numbers 134-164). A list has been placed at the front of each volume; only the manuscript items have...
Dates:
1765-?1845.
Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings by James Nasmyth, and his family., 1796-1885, undated.
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Identifier: MSS.3241-3242
Scope and Contents
The sketches etc. by James Nasmyth form an almost continuous series of illustrations to his published autobiography, and include: a sketch of Sir Walter Scott, dated 1823 (number 34); sketches of different parts of England and Scotland and of Naples, Nürnberg, Pisa, Venice, etc., all visited between the years 1829 and 1843; drawings and photographs of lunar phenomena, 1847, undated; early drafts of imaginative pictures; experiments in etching, oil-painting, and other methods; and drawings...
Dates:
1796-1885, undated.
Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings by James Nasmyth, and his family., 1796-1838.
File
Identifier: MS.3241
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The sketches etc. by James Nasmyth form an almost continuous series of illustrations to his published autobiography, and include: a sketch of Sir Walter Scott, dated 1823 (number 34); sketches of different parts of England and Scotland and of Naples, Nürnberg, Pisa, Venice, etc., all visited between the years 1829 and 1843; drawings and photographs of lunar phenomena, 1847, undated; early drafts of imaginative pictures; experiments in etching, oil-painting, and other methods; and drawings...
Dates:
1796-1838.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings by James Nasmyth, and his family.
Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings by James Nasmyth, and his family., 1838-1885, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3242
Scope and Contents
Also included are undated sketches by Sir William Allan (number 223), Sir James Foulis, Nasmyth's uncle (numbers 273, 292), Clarkson Stanfield (number 294), and Charles Piazzi Smith (number 336).
Dates:
1838-1885, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings by James Nasmyth, and his family.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3241-3243
Dates:
1796-1885, undated.
Composite volume made up by Robert Graham, being the record of a tour, 1849, in the Lake District, North Wales, the Wye Valley Bristol, Cheddar, Glastonbury and Wells, Longleat, Stonehenge and Salisbury, the New Forest and Southampton., 1849.
File
Identifier: MS.16055
Scope and Contents
Of the printed items, the following have been described fully in the Catalogue of Printed Books (see ‘External documents’ for a link to the records):“Crosthwaite's celebrated museum” ([Keswick], [1849]) (folio 26);
‘The triumph of science’ by R Stephenson (Carnarvon, 1849) (folios 49-65);
“The tourist's guide to Britannia Bridge” by Thomas Jackson (Bangor, 1849) (folios 66-83);
‘General description of the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges on the Chester & Holyhead Railway’...
Dates:
1849.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Travel diaries, journal letters and papers chiefly of Robert Graham.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George L A Douglas. Volume I: France., 1819.
Item
Identifier: MS.10357
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
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'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George Lewis Augustus Douglas.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George L A Douglas. Volume II: Spain., 1819.
Item
Identifier: MS.10358
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
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'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George Lewis Augustus Douglas.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George L A Douglas. Volume III: Spain., 1819.
Item
Identifier: MS.10359
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
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'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George Lewis Augustus Douglas.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George L A Douglas. Volume IV: Portugal., 1819.
Item
Identifier: MS.10360
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
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'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George Lewis Augustus Douglas.
'Continental and Peninsular Sketches, 1819, comprising a series of familiar letters, descriptive of the exisitng state of different parts of France, Spain and Portugal. Illustrated with engravings, executed from drawings taken on the spot', by George Lewis Augustus Douglas., 1819.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10357-10360
Scope and Contents
Written on paper watermarked 1819, this is a revised version of MSS.10351-10356 in letter form.
Dates:
1819.
Copies of letters, 1798, 1838, of George Thomson; with sketches and engravings, undated, of David Allan and others., 1798-1838, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20439
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Copy of a letter, 1798, by George Thomson concerning his publication of Robert Burns' songs. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Copy of a letter, 1838, by Thomson containing an autobiographical memoir. This was published in ‘The land of Burns’, i, by John Wilson and Robert Chambers, pages 38-42. (Folio 5.)
(iii) Sketches and engravings, undated, by David Allan and others. The sketches were probably made for Thomson's ‘Select collection of original Scotish [sic] airs’ (see J C...
Dates:
1798-1838, undated.
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.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.14
Scope and Contents
The author`s name is not given, and, as in the other manuscripts, the introduction to the printed edition is replaced by a preface `To the Reader`. On folio 2 is a dedication by John Woodward to James Douglas, `one of his Majesties Seacretaries for the Kingdome of Scotland`, stating that the author was dead (Cornwallis died in 1629). For possible identifications of Douglas, see Adv.MS.19.3.3.A trimmed engraved portrait of Prince Henry by Francis Delaram taken from ‘Baziliwlogia’...
Dates:
1641.
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`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.16
Scope and Contents
The text is closely related to the life by William Roper, but there are interpolations and the dialogues are in the third person. Roper`s preface is replaced by a dedicatory letter to Captain Marmaduke Rawdon from John Hawkins, stating that Hawkins had originally intended to publish the text (Roper`s biography was first published in 1626). The life is followed by a poem `Sir Thomas More his Vision` (folio 80) which has been published by Constance Smith in ‘Moreana’, number 37 (1973), pages...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
[Copy of Afbeeldingh van de Zype... Jan Dirckss Zoutman. 1665; with ms notes along sea front]., 1665.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(133)
Scope and Contents
Coloured map.
Dates:
Other: 1665.
Copy, possibly the holograph, of the report by Thomas Tucker on the customs and excise of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.5
Scope and Contents
Tucker had been sent to Scotland in the autumn of 1655 to set up the customs and to re-establish the excise, and his report, dated 20 November 1656, was written after his return to London. The report is followed by an unmarked copy of ‘Rules, Orders and Instructions, Made and Published by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in Scotland ...’ (Edinburgh, 1656) (folio 54), and by `The forme of the Cash or Day Booke to be kept by the severall Collectors of Customs and Excise in...
Dates:
1655-1656.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9835-9840
Dates:
1804-1862.
Correspondence and papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and of Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount, on Indian affairs.
File
Identifier: Acc.12001
Dates:
1790-1838.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20262-20267
Dates:
1708-1958, undated.
Correspondence, including autograph letters, photographs and pictures., 1732-1958, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7926/48-51