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18th century Royal warrant commanding the preparation of letters patent granting Robert Barker use for fourteen years of his invention 'La nature a coup d'oeil ... for displaying views of nature ... by oil painting', or 'panorama'

 Fonds — Volume: CLX-A-1324
Identifier: Coll-1692
Scope and Contents This document is of significant interest as a record of the invention of what became one of the most popular forms of public entertainment in the first half of the 19th century.It is a Warrant signed by George III commanding the preparation of letters patent granting to Robert Barker the sole use for fourteen years of his invention of "an entire new contrivance or apparatus which he calls la nature a coup d'oeil for the purpose of displaying views of nature at large by oil...
Dates: 5 June 1787
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Coloured Panorama of Edinburgh

 Fonds — Frame: Barker Panorama
Identifier: Coll-1709
Scope and Contents

This small, watercolour version of Barker's first full Panorama is dated 1792. Its purpose is unclear, but it is related to a set of engravings published two years earlier.

Dates: 1792
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Explanation of a view of Stirling, exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2095
Content Description

Etched illustration of the panorama of Stirling which was exhibited at Barker's Panorama, Leicester Square, London, from December 1832 to June 1833. Originally issued as part of the printed guide sold to visitors to the attraction.

Dates: Publication: 1832
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Panorama of Edinburgh from Calton Hill

 Fonds — Folder: Coll-1092 (E2006.22)
Identifier: Coll-1092
Scope and Contents This is an incomplete non-aqua-tinted version of the earliest panorama view - and a modest panorama. The panorama is composed of only four of the full collection of a six part set. The panorama shows (when the parts are laid adjacent to each other, and from right to left): - Calton Hill, and the Observatory there, looking east towards Berwick Law and the Forth estuary -...
Dates: 1789-1790
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Panorama of Jerusalem taken from the roof of the Governor's Palace, by Selina Bracebridge

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2108
Scope and Contents

This is a large panoramic view of Jerusalem originally taken from the roof of the Governor's Palace by Selina Bracebridge on the 16th December 1834. The present item is a lithographed reproduction of the full panorama drawing, in the form of a long strip. [Graf & Soret], [1834].

Dates: [1834]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Panorama of London from the roof of the Albion Flour Mills

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2092
Content Description

This is a small panorama in six panels showing a 360 degree view of London, centred on St. Paul's, seen from across the Thames. Aquatint engraving by Frederick Birnie, based on drawings by Henry Aston Barker, which were used to create the full-size panorama shown in Robert Barker's public panorama in 1792.

Dates: 1792
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Panorama of Sydney entitled "Panorama du Port Jackson et de la ville de Sidney, pris d'une colline pres de la riviere de Parramatta"

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2096
Content Description

Rare single sheet French edition of this highly important panoramic aquatint view of Sydney, based upon Major James Taylor's three-sheet panorama published in London, in 1823. A panorama based on his drawings was exhibited at Barker's Panorama, London in 1824.

Dates: Publication: ca 1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Panoramic scene of the field of Battle, near Waterloo ... for the Panorama, Leicester Square

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1101
Scope and Contents There are 8 parts to the panorama and it was intended that they be joined together to form a complete circle. The viewer would then stand in the centre and have a panoramic view of the entire scene of Battle. Each part is around 60cm x 29cm. Drawn on the Plateau of Mont St. Jean, they show: - No.1 -The farm at La Haye Saint, and more - No.2 - Around the orchard of...
Dates: 1816
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photographic prints of a panorama view from the Beyazit Tower, Constantinople

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2086
Content Description

This item consists of two colour photographic prints, conjoined, depicting a panoramic view from the Beyazit Tower, Constantinople, c 1900.

Dates: c 1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Viewers' key of a panorama entitled "Lord Nelson's Attack on Copenhagen", by Robert Barker and Henry Aston Barker

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2001
Scope and Contents This is the viewer's key for a panorama entitled "Lord Nelson’s Attack on Copenhagen", printed by J. Adlard in 1802. It is an exploded circular diagram, with the illustrated features numbered, and a letterpress explanatory key.According to Ralph Hyde's Dictionary of Panoramists of the English Speaking World, this panorama was exhibited between May 1802 and April 1803 and executed by Robert Barker’s son, Henry Ashton Barker who had been introduced...
Dates: [1802]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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