Paintings. Visual works.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Arabic astrological text, ? 19th century.
With Burmese prayer woven on a tape, roll containing a poem, an inscription, and a painting by Ch`êng Chih-You, with accompanying ink blocks, all undated.
Armorial traditionally associated with Sir Robert Forman, Lord Lyon from 1555 to 1567
Autograph album of an unknown collector, containing verses, drawings, and photographs.
The album contains poetry, prose extracts, drawings, painting, and photographs by various artists. Many of the entries relate to Edinburgh, including to Moray House.
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.
Colour photograph (reduced) of "Authors in Session", a group portrait by Stanley Cursiter of Edwin Muir, O H Mavor, Neil Gunn and Eric Linklater.
Colour transparencies, 2006, of artworks by Alasdair Gray, 1950s-2005.
Tansparencies of paintings and drawings by Alasdair Gray, many of which were collected and annotated in this collection to be scanned for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Horoscope, with elaborate astrological calculations, of a man born in 1788 AD.
The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script, and contains pairs of illustrations at intervals (usually a sign of the zodiac plus a diagram).
Illustrated diary of a tour of Scotland.
John Sawers` Armorial, containing the arms of the Scottish nobility, mostly painted on engraved outlines.
Letters of W.S. Graham to Ruth Hilton; with poetry manuscripts and typescripts, artwork, related correspondence and published items.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence and related papers of Jessie Kesson.
Papers of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, containing diaries, drawings, paintings, photographs, newspaper cuttings and other related material.
Includes diaries and photographs.
Papers of the Gordon family of Halmyre and Gordonstoun.
Patent of nobility by the Empress Maria Theresa, in favour of Johann Baptist and Karl Joseph Hepperger, merchants in Botzen.
The manuscript is written in an engraved frame dated 1757, and includes a painting of the Hepperger coat of arms. Inserted at the beginning is a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1842, and other material concerning the document.