Portraits.
Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:
Portfolio of miscellaneous drawings, watercolours, and maps, many apparently by J K Rennie., 19th century.
Portrait sketches by Sir David Wilkie on the fly-leaves of his Bible, with his signature, dated 11 November 1799.
Portraits and photographs of members of the Dunlop family and its connections., 19th century-mid 20th century.
Portraits, caricatures, and photographs of portraits of officers of the 51st (Highland) Division by Lieutenant Leonard J Smith.
The drawings are in pencil, and there are also a few proofs of cards and posters designed by Leonard Smith.
Portraits drawn by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in pencil, ink and watercolours.
The portraits have been cut out of larger sheets or sketchbooks and mounted in albums. Most of the sitters are unidentified. In accordance with Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's practice (see ‘Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’, volume i, pages 21, 40) the heads are completed in watercolours but the rest of the figure and any background are usually only sketched in pencil.
Portraits of friends and other contemporaries of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Wilfred Partington for a grangerized copy of his ‘Private Letter-books of Sir Walter Scott’., 1803-1884, undated.
The portraits include a rare self-portrait of Joseph Mallord William Turner and a caricature of Joseph Ritson, 1803.
Prints, chiefly cut from books, consisting of portraits, the decorated titles of maps, architectural subjects, and miscellaneous subjects, and apparently collected for their decorative qualities., 16th century.
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.
Publicity photographs of the actor Forbes Masson performing in various theatre productions., 1991, undated.
Publicity photographs of various theatre actors and actresses taken by various photographers., 1991, undated.
Publicity photographs, taken by Sean Hudson, of the actress Elaine C. Smith performing in various theatre productions., Undated.
'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, covering the years 1783-1797., [1797, or after.]
Reminiscences of Mary E Haldane’s early life and experiences., 1922-1925, undated.
The reminiscences are continued from MS.20017 (Part 1), folio 15.
A small quantity of papers found loosely enclosed in MSS.20015: ‘Birthday scripture text book’, and MS.20018: Notebook containing an account by Mrs Haldane of her ancestors and her early years, have been placed at the end (folio 399).
Scrap-book, containing caricatures, some dated 1813, and other drawings, chiefly by John Gibson Lockhart, engravings, etchings, lithographs, etc., 1813-1857, undated.
Sketchbook containing, pasted in, small sketches, chiefly undated, by Marion Coleman, and a few apparently by Karl Cauer, depicting continental politicians and nobles and members of their families., [?1850]-[?1860.]
Except one sketch, dated 1858, all are undated, but were no doubt drawn between 1850 and 1860. The leaves are watermarked 1851.
Sketchbook containing watercolours and pencil sketches by an unidentified artist, chiefly of Kentish scenes and buildings.
There are also a number of portraits and studies of flowers. Two of the sketches are dated 1863 and most of the watercolours are titled. At the end of the volume several playing cards and a sheet of Chinese writing have been inserted.
Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.
Small collections of letters and papers concerning people with surnames from F-W., 1741-1888, undated.
‘Some notes on the children of Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter Scott, and their descendants’, by William Moncreiffe; typed, with photographs of portraits.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Three glass photographic plates, with positive prints made from them., ?1856.
Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.
Three letters to Captain Charles Gray, Royal Marines, regarding his ‘Familiar Epistle addressed to Peter McLeod’ (Edinburgh, 1845), in which they are pasted.
Two albums, titled 'Autographs and Portraits', and labelled 1 and 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool, to whom several of the letters are addressed, from about 1820 to about 1840.
The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.
Typescript copies of letters, 1795-1797, of Mary Cecilia Gibson, daughter of Professor James Balfour of Pilrig and wife of William Gibson, of the Durie family, to her son Lewis in India.
Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.
Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.