Watercolours. Paintings.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to two-dimensional works of art, usually on a paper support, to which pigment suspended in water is applied with a brush to create an image or design.
Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:
Typescript, undated, of 'Indian diary' by Violet Jacobs., 1922-1923.
Item
Identifier: MS.27415
Scope and Contents
Diary of a second visit to India when Violet Jacob and her husband returned to some of the places they had known in 1895-1900. It describes their journey from Port Said to Bhopal and travels to Agra, Mhow, Dhar, and other places. There are lively descriptions of social visits, especially to Sultan Jehan Begum, the ruler of Bhopal, local life, archaeological remains, scenery and plants.
Dates:
1922-1923.
Unmounted sketches of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke., 1860-1863.
File
Identifier: MS.17921
Volume containing chiefly prints, with a few drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists., [?1827.]
File
Identifier: MS.5791
Dates:
[?1827.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Journals, commonplace books and letters from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Volumes containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists.
Volume containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists., [?1827.]
File
Identifier: MS.5792
Dates:
[?1827.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Journals, commonplace books and letters from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Volumes containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists.
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20668-20669
Dates:
1885-1889.
Volume containing watercolour sketches, photographs, maps and geological notes of John Francis Campbell, recording a visit he made to North America in the autumn of 1864., 1864.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.1
Dates:
1864.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Volume containing watercolours, photographs, notes and printed items relating to John Francis Campbell`s travels from 1865-1868., 1858-1868.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.2
Scope and Contents
Campbell illustrates a visit to Hammerfest and the North Cape made in the Autumn of 1865 and travels he made in Scotland for geological interest in the following years.There are several printed pamphlets by Campbell which have been inserted at various places throughout the volume: ‘Notes on the Stature of the Lapps’ (London, 1866) (folio 53), “Rough Night`s Quarters” (Edinburgh, 1866) (folio 75), ‘A Method of Converting Collodion Negatives into Positives’ (Liverpool, 1858) (folio...
Dates:
1858-1868.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Volume of photographs of the early stages of the building of the Forth Bridge, 1888, with some later photographs and a watercolour of the completed bridge.
Series
Identifier: Dep.181-is now Acc.14382
Dates:
1888, and after.
Volume of watercolour sketches and photographs with brief geological or meteorological notes made by John Francis Campbell on his journey to India in 1876-1877 in continuation of his world tour., 1876-1877.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.12
Scope and Contents
Campbell also includes rubbings of ornamental tiles from some of the Indian temples he visited.
At the end of the volume there are a few photographs of Windsor Castle (folios 127-129).
Dates:
1876-1877.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Volume of watercolour sketches by John Francis Campbell made on his trip to Norway and Sweden in 1849., 1849.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.18
Dates:
1849.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Volumes containing prints, drawings, and water-colour sketches by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Henri L'Evêque, and many anonymous artists., [?1827.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5791-5792
Scope and Contents
The images are nearly all of Italian scenes, and seem to have been collected during a tour of Italy in 1827.
Dates:
[?1827.]
"Watch, Quarter, and Station Bills; Boats' Crews, and Signals; Orders & Regulations, &ca. &ca. &ca. of His Majesty's Ship Forte", with water-colour pictures of ships and evolutions, and plans of the decks and cabins., 1820-1824.
File
Identifier: MS.2606
Dates:
1820-1824.
Water-colour paintings by William Gibb, the originals of the illustrations to ‘The Royal House of Stuart’., 1888-1889, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3246
Water-colour paintings by William Gibb, the originals of the illustrations to ‘The Royal House of Stuart’., 1888-1889, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3247
Scope and Contents
Also included is a painting of the keys of Lochleven Castle and of the Edinburgh Tolbooth (Plate XLI).
Dates:
1888-1889, undated.
Water-colour paintings by William Gibb, the originals of the illustrations to ‘The Royal House of Stuart’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3246-3247
Scope and Contents
Most of the paintings are undated, but the dates 1888 and 1889 are found on a few.
Dates:
1888-1889, undated.
Watercolour by Karl-Erik Forsberg, symbolising the National Library of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9187
Dates:
1986.
Watercolour by the Rev William Paget of the ruins of Edinburgh after the 1824 fire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12414
Dates:
1824.
Watercolour of a woman of pariah caste carrying a loaded basket; probably one of a series of scenes of Indian life painted for Europeans by the Patna artist Sewak Ram (circa 1770-circa 1830)., [Circa 1810.]
Item
Identifier: MS.16486
Dates:
[Circa 1810.]
Watercolour painting and other drawings and sketches., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9484/44
Dates:
Undated.
Watercolour paintings, by Thomas Brown of Waterhaughs and Lanfine, Advocate.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.8.1-34.8.3
Scope and Contents
The paintings are chiefly of Edinburgh and other places in Scotland; several were made in Corfu and Malta, and some in Italy, Sicily, and other Continental countries. According to a note of the donor (Adv.MS.34.8.1, folio iii), they were probably made between 1830 and 1850.
They are mounted - apparently not in chronological, and certainly not in topographical, order - in three albums, each of which contains a list of contents at the beginning.
Dates:
?1830-1850.
Watercolour paintings, by Thomas Brown of Waterhaughs and Lanfine, volume 1., ?1830-1850.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.8.1
Watercolour paintings, by Thomas Brown of Waterhaughs and Lanfine, volume 2., ?1830-1850.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.8.2
Watercolour paintings, by Thomas Brown of Waterhaughs and Lanfine, volume 3., ?1830-1850.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.8.3
Watercolour sketch of Duntulm Castle, by Constance Gordon Cumming.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7156
Scope and Contents
Drawn for an illustration of her "From the Hebrides to the Himalayas" (1876).
Dates:
circa 1876.
Watercolour sketches chiefly by members of the Balfour and Ellice families, with a few in pencil and a few by other people., 1823-1852, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15174
Dates:
1823-1852, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Collections of drawings consisting chiefly of watercolour and pencil sketches.
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Collections of drawings by Katherine Jane Ellice.