Sketches.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Rough or summary art works; less finished than studies. Though sketches are often in the drawing medium, the term ""drawings"" in general implies more finished works than does ""sketches"" .
Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:
Sketch and plan of additions to Millburn Tower sent by Alexander Ramage Liston to Sir Robert Liston., 1813.
File
Identifier: MS.5715
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates:
1813.
Sketch by Colonel Mikailovitch, commander of the artillery of the Second Serbian Army, illustrating the disposition of guns and troops for an attack on the Bulgarian front.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.30
Scope and Contents
The attack took place at 0535 on 15 September 1918 and was the first break-through on the Bulgarian front.
The sketch was made for the information of the 4.7 inch gun section of the 84th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, British Army.
Dates:
12 September 1918.
Sketch map showing locations of various conferences organised by the Scottish Association for Mental Health., Circa 1972-1973.
File
Identifier: Acc.7170/[Box] 13(5)
Dates:
Circa 1972-1973.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Records of the Scottish Association for Mental Health and its predecessor bodies, containing minutes, organisational correspondence and other related papers.
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Correspondence, invitations, programmes and organisational papers relating to conferences organised by the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
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Papers and sketch maps relating to conferences organised by the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
Sketch-plans relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle., 1883-1893, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1739 [Map Library]
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The undertaking was financed by William Nelson the publisher, and the architect was Hippolyte Blanc, to whom most of the letters are addressed.
Dates:
1883-1893, undated.
Sketchbook of A E Borthwick containing chiefly pencil sketches and rough watercolours of Scottish landscapes., 1902.
Item
Identifier: MS.10471
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1902.
Sketches and drawings by various members of the Minto family., [Circa 1777]-1843, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12864
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Dates:
[Circa 1777]-1843, undated.
Sketches and notes of Arthur Geddes for a proposed Zoological park, probably at Lucknow, India., 1924, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19280
Sketches by A E Borthwick and Robert Gibb, with other visual materials., 19th century-1964, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10470-10479
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
19th century-1964, undated.
Sketches, drawings and other visual material., [1935-2006].
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13338/665-675
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
[1935-2006].
Sketches of Chinese scenes, chiefly in pencil, by Walter George Dickson, Doctor of Medicine, Edinburgh (died 1894), for many years a medical practitioner in Canton, author of ‘Japan' and 'Gleanings from Japan’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.503-507
Dates:
[?1850-?1860.]
Sketches of Scottish scenery, chiefly in pencil, by Jean Goldie of Summerhill, author of ‘Familiar recollections and national progress’.
File
Identifier: MS.508
Scope and Contents
Information about the artist was supplied by the donors. Contains 74 sketches mounted on sheets containing one to four sketches.
Dates:
1820-1825.
Sketches of the crypt of Rosslyn Chapel, showing the working drawings., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10333
Dates:
19th century.
Small pocket-book of Lord Lynedoch of pencil notes and sketches, undated, some illegible, on fortifications., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.16192
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Military papers of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Item
Identifier: MS.6299
Scope and Contents
There is an index on folio 1; the songs begin on folio 5.The Scottish songs appear to come mainly from Allan Ramsay's ‘Tea table miscellany’ and David Herd's ‘Ancient and modern Scottish songs’ (1776), though some of the songs may have been picked up by ear, as they include a very debased version of Henry Carey's 'Sally in our alley' (folio 17 verso) and "My heart's in the Highlands" in an apparently unknown version different from that of Burns (folio 81 verso)....
Dates:
18th century.
Speeches delivered by Lord Rutherfurd, pamphlets containing obituary tributes to various friends, 1841-1859, and miscellaneous papers and pamphlets, 1746-1930, undated., 1746-1930, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9720
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) ‘Substance of a speech delivered by the Lord Advocate at a dinner given to him by his constituents at Leith, on Friday 8th January, 1841’ (Edinburgh, 1841) (folio 1);
(ii) Manuscript of a speech by Lord Rutherfurd, probably his address of congratulation on behalf of the Faculty of Advocates to David Boyle on his elevation to the Lord Presidency of the Court of Session, 1841 (folio 9);
(iii) ‘Inaugural address by Andrew Rutherfurd Esq., M.P., on his...
Dates:
1746-1930, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice, and other members of the Rutherfurd family.
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Miscellaneous papers and notebooks of Lord Rutherfurd and members of the Rutherfurd family.
'System of water-colour painting', 17th edition (London, 1858), by Aaron Penley, used by James Augustus Grant on his African expedition., 1858.
Item
Identifier: MS.17927
Scope and Contents
On the front cover are James Augustus Grant's signature and the note 'This book was my guide through Africa. J.A. Grant'; on a leaf tipped in after page [ii] are pencil and watercolour sketches; on page 64 is a pencil sketch; and on pages 7 and 10 of the advertisements at the back are pencil notes.
Dates:
1858.
‘Tales from the people of Sutherland’: stories, beliefs, riddles, etc., collected by Miss Charlotte Louisa Dempster., 1859.
File
Identifier: MS.2140
Scope and Contents
The volume contains entries by various writers, including John F Campbell of Islay, by whom there is an index (folio 2) and a sketch (folio 184).
Dates:
1859.
'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.
File
Identifier: MS.9659
Scope and Contents
The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.
Dates:
[Circa 1870.]
'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.
Item
Identifier: MS.2564
Scope and Contents
Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.
There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Thirty-seven pen and pencil drawings, in some cases with further sketches on the reverse side, by John Harden., 1803-1810.
File
Identifier: MS.8867
Scope and Contents
The drawings are nearly all figure-groups executed either at Queen Street, Edinburgh, or at Brathay Hall, Windermere. The majority depict family gatherings, often caught playing cards or chess, sometimes in the company of friends like the Learmonths in Edinburgh or the Lloyds at Brathay Hall (see MS.8872). In most cases, a brief description, based on information supplied by the Clay family, has been added.
Dates:
1803-1810.
'Tom: 2d of the juvenile poetic works of John Black’, containing drafts of verse dramas and other poems including fragments of ‘The Falls of Clyde, or the fairies’ by John Black, minister of Coylton.
File
Identifier: MS.14233
Scope and Contents
According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.
Dates:
1797-1798.
Tracing and original - Sketch of harbour, with proposed piers and breakwaters - Boddam, Aberdeen - surveyed by Hamilton and Company., 1877.
File
Identifier: MS.5845 (42)-(43)
Dates:
1877.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with B.
Tracing - Sketch taken from plan of Kirkton Hill - Esk, River, North, Angus/Kincardine - surveyed by George Robertson., 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.5849 (119)
Dates:
1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Edinburgh, London Road-Ey.
Twenty-five sketches by Walter George Dickson, chiefly of Ningpo., [?1850-?1860.]
File
Identifier: MS.505 (i)
Dates:
[?1850-?1860.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Sketches of Chinese scenes, chiefly in pencil, by Walter George Dickson, Doctor of Medicine, Edinburgh (died 1894), for many years a medical practitioner in Canton, author of ‘Japan' and 'Gleanings from Japan’.
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Twenty-six sketches by Walter George Dickson, chiefly of Ningpo, including a painting of Hong Kong.
Twenty-nine sketches of Macao by Walter George Dickson., [?1850-?1860.]
File
Identifier: MS.507
Dates:
[?1850-?1860.]