Forgeries. Derivative objects.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Valued objects or documents that are made or altered with intent to deceive; may range in falsehood from counterfeiting of whole works to altering of signatures or other deliberate misrepresentations. Distinguished from ""copies (derivative objects)"" by the intention of deception.
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
A "Burns" poem and a "Scott" letter, the work of forger, Alexander Howland Smith.
File
Identifier: Acc.9595
Dates:
circa 1888-1892.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Alexander "Antique" Smith forgery of letter of Rob Roy MacGregor.
File
Identifier: Acc.9255
Scope and Contents
With portrait of Rob Roy MacGregor and engraving of Sir Joseph Banks.
Dates:
19th century.
Correspondence and financial papers., 1810-1852.
File
Identifier: MS.573, folios 31-55
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: forged One Pound Note of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, 1810 (folio 31); petition of Nathaniel Gow for a pension, with correspondence, 1826 (folio 32); letter signed by four Principal Clerks of Session (including Thomas Thomson) relating to the accounts for office room, etc., 1848 (folio 48); letter of Duncan McNeill, afterwards 1st Baron Colonsay, 1848 (folio 50); letter of Charles Neaves, Solicitor-General, to William Edmonstoune Aytoun, Sheriff of Orkney,...
Dates:
1810-1852.
Correspondence between Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron, with letters of Lady Caroline Lamb to John Cam Hobhouse., 1812-1824, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43465
Scope and Contents
The letters between Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron have been placed before those of Lamb to John Cam Hobhouse. They have then been arranged in chronological order. Some of the letters were dated with reference to the website of Professor Paul Douglass, ‘Caro: the Caroline Lamb website’.When first made available for consultation this folder of letters, before it was foliated, included a letter, provisionally dated 1813, which had attributed the recipient as being Lord Byron. ...
Dates:
1812-1824, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Letters of and to Lady Caroline Lamb, with some of William Lamb and George Lamb.
Forged letter, spuriously dated`1801` purporting to be of Walter Scott but actually by Alexander Howland Smith, pseudonym Antique Smith.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12364
Dates:
circa 1890.
Forged letters and manuscripts of Lord Byron; with correspondence and notes relating to the forgeries and to George Gordon Du Luna Byron., 1841-2004, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.43542
Scope and Contents
The forged letters and manuscripts of Lord Byron, with accompanying notes, have been placed at the start of the sequence. Correspondence relating to the forgeries has then been ordered chronologically, with two copies of transcriptions of the forgeries placed at the end of the sequence.Forged letters and manuscripts and copies of the same of Lord Byron, with accompanying notes and memos of John Murray [V] and Virginia Murray placed after their corresponding letters, undated and...
Dates:
1841-2004, undated.
Forged letters purporting to be written by Sir Walter Scott to James Ferrier, probably the work of Alexander H Smith (‘Antique Smith’)., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.938
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Miscellaneous papers, including some not connected with Sir Walter Scott, and some forged letters purporting to be written by him.
Letters, 1813-1814, addressed to Captain Andrew Broun, Royal Navy, commanding the prisoners depot at Valleyfield, by French prisoners; with two bank-notes forged by the prisoners and a letter of Captain Broun, 1812., 1812-1814.
File
Identifier: MS.3648, folios 61-73
Dates:
1812-1814.
Miscellaneous papers, including some not connected with Sir Walter Scott, and some forged letters purporting to be written by him., 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.937-938
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
Notes for sermons, a copy of a spurious ballad, and a letter of the North British Railway to the Incorporation of Tailors of Canongate., 1782, 1846.
File
Identifier: MS.2211
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notes for sermons, probably preached by the Reverend Robert Walker at Cramond, 1782. (Folio 1.)(ii) A copy of the spurious ballad of "Jock o' Milk", endorsed by David Herd, 'Fragment of an Old Scots Ballad, about 1342'. Perhaps made in 1802; see ‘Letters of Sir Walter Scott’, Centenary Edition (Edinburgh, 1932), volume i, pages 140-141, 142. This is perhaps the ballad mentioned in William Smellie, ‘Account of the Institution and...
Dates:
1782, 1846.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Photographs, ?1920, of the manuscript described by John Sobieski Stuart in his edition of the `Vestiarum Scoticum` (Edinburgh, 1842), and further discussed by him in his ‘Reply to the "Quarterly Review" [June, 1847] upon the "Vestiarium Scoticum"’, where it is described as the `Cromarty Manuscript`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.2.26
Dates:
Before 1842.
'Spurious Documents, 1887-1893.' Letters, supposed to be of historical and literary celebrities, forged by Alexander Howland Smith ('Antique Smith')., 1887-1894.
File
Identifier: MS.2209
Scope and Contents
Also included are newspaper-cuttings from the ‘Edinburgh Evening Dispatch’ regarding the forgeries and the trial of Alexander Smith, 1892-1893. The papers were compiled in 1894.
Dates:
1887-1894.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Spurious documents, forged by Alexander Howland Smith ('Antique Smith').
Spurious documents, forged by Alexander Howland Smith ('Antique Smith')., 1887-1893.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2209-2210
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1887-1893.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Spurious documents, forged by Alexander Howland Smith, with his notes on them and a list., [?Circa 1890], 1920.
File
Identifier: MS.2210
Scope and Contents
The 'Solemn League and Covenant' bears a note on its spuriousness by David Hay Fleming, 1920.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [?Circa 1890], 1920.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Spurious documents, forged by Alexander Howland Smith ('Antique Smith').