Watercolours. Paintings.
Found in 88 Collections and/or Records:
Notebooks from Perth Academy.
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Original water-colour drawings of Scottish legal robes, insignia, seals, etc., including those pertaining to courts now abolished.
One drawing was executed by James Drummond, Member of the Royal Scottish Academy. They were ‘first arranged and bound from an old collection’ in 1889.
Papers concerning the lands of Kermuck and Ellon, and the family of Gordon of Ellon.
Papers concerning "The Naturalist`s Library", edited by Sir William Jardine.
Containing original drawings, watercolours, working proofs and prints.
Papers of Frank Whyte, civil engineer, including notebooks, watercolours and letters, with educational certificates of his sister, Mary Whyte, teacher.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of Stewart Sim.
Includes architectural drawings, sketches, watercolours and photographs.
Papers of the family of Scott Plummer of Sunderland Hall.
Pen, ink and watercolour design of Sir Frank Mears for a "Civic Museum and Outlook Tower for an American City."
Photographs and watercolour portraits of, or assembled by, William Simpson.
Includes manuscript of memoir "Notes and Recollections".
Photographs, maps and watercolours, compiled by Nikolai Vasilievich Poggenpol.
Concerning mountaineering expedition to Digoria, Balkaria, and Bezingi, in the Caucasus.
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.
Presentation inscription, December 1942, by Joyce Cary to Professor John Dover Wilson, in Cary's 'To be a pilgrim' (London, 1942).
A watercolour by Joyce Cary depicting the scene described on page 306 is pasted inside the front cover. The title page is also signed by him.
'Rhymes of the Poona Volunteer Rifles' by John C Matthew, being verses by an army chaplain with illustrations in watercolours.
Scottish album containing 36 illustrations of artists on Robert Burns and his works, including press cuttings and original holding mechanism.
Six albums of pen and watercolour sketches by H G M Kirby depicting a history of his sporting life and his friends.
Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.
Sketch book of Major-General John Brown, containing drawings in pen, pencil and watercolour of buildings and landscapes in Scotland and Ireland.
The artist made most of his sketches in August and September 1791, when he travelled from Elgin to Fort Augustus, Aviemore, and Cullen. There are also sketches of Edinburgh and of a few scenes in Ireland, and architectural drawings with measurements, mostly of Elgin Cathedral.
Sketchbook containing drawings in pencil and water-colour of scenes in the Allied camp during the Crimean campaign, 1854-1856.
The sketchbook also includes two sketches of officers at a court martial in 1850 (folio 29) and a plan of a battery near Sebastopol, 1855-1856 (folio 31 verso).
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.
Sketchbook of drawings in water-colour, pen and pencil by Arthur Elliot, Worthing, including scenes in Scotland and some in Hastings and Guildford, on the Rhine, and in Biarritz, Pau, and Argelès.
Sketchbook of twenty-two water-colour drawings of flowers by Anne E Nasmyth, wife of the engineer, James Nasmyth.
Sketchbook of water-colour drawings, notes and plans by Thomas Scott, Earlston, chiefly of Scottish buildings in the Border area.
'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.
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.