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 6 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.
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.
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.