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Rubbings. Visual works.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Images made by placing a material such as paper or cloth over a relief, incised, or textured surface and rubbing.

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1., 1761-1822, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22
Scope and Contents From the Series: 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: 1761-1822, undated.

Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, part 1, box 5., 1789-1815, undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.30.5.22 (5 of 7), numbers 26e-30c
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Argyllshire (26e) Drawing, ‘Monument at Sadael [i.e. Saddell] Abbey, 13 Aug. 1802. It lies within the church, to the east near the burial place of Dugald Campbell Esqr. of Carradale’. (26f) Drawing, ‘Monument of Ronald More Macalaster in Sadael [i.e. Saddell] Abbey, 18 Aug. 1802. He was contemporary with Macdonald of [unclear] in N Cantyre. Another old monument lies close to it, as above deliniated [sic] but I could not procure any information concerning...
Dates: 1789-1815, undated.

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

Miscellaneous sketches and rubbings by William Skeoch Cumming., 1908-1909, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9795
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the material is undated and fragmentary in nature. Rough sketches, notes taken from printed books, addresses, accounts, and descriptions of portraits and uniforms are scattered throughout.

Dates: 1908-1909, undated.

Papers and correspondence of James Douglas Hamilton Dickson relating to tsuba (Japanese sword guards)., 1913-1915.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9770/15
Scope and Contents

Includes: correspondence with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, regarding the cataloguing of tsuba in the Marlay bequest; the annual report, 1913, of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate; and rubbings of tsuba with names or inscriptions in the Royal Scottish Museum.

Dates: 1913-1915.

Volume of verse and leaf-rubbings compiled by Jane Whitefoord as a gift for Christian Dalrymple., 1799.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25499
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Christian Dalrymple (1765-1838) was the heiress of Lord Hailes, being his daughter by his first marriage to Anne Brown. Although she inherited the Newhailes estate in 1792, the title passed to her cousin, James Dalrymple, who became 4th Baronet of Hailes. Christian Dalrymple did not marry. Her papers consist largely of family correspondence and her journals which provide a detailed record of her daily life over nearly forty years.

Dates: 1799.