Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1771 - 1832
Biography
For a complete biography of Sir Walter Scott, please see The Walter Scott Digital Archive.
Barnaby, Paul, The Walter Scott Digital Archive (Last updated: 25/06/2019) <http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html> [Accessed on 25 September 2023]
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2019
Content Description
This is an album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), comprising approximately 420 sketches. A talented amateur artist, James Skene of Rubislaw was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott who accompanied him on riding excursions to localities that Scott planned to feature in his novels and poems. There, at Scott’s suggestion, Skene made sketches of landscapes and buildings that Scott then used as an inspiration and aide-memoire for his own work. Many of the sketches in this album...
Dates:
c 1804-c 1830
Notes on index-cards made by Clive Wainwright while researching for works on Abbotsford
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1299
Scope and Contents
This collection of around 200 index-cards with manuscript research notes written in ink (cards 20 cm x 13 cm dimension) are divided by 15-index tabs into the following sections:
WS Visits
Hay, Bullock, Terry, Blore, Atkinson
WS Tradition and Folklore
WS Friends and Visitors
WS on Collecting and Architecture
Abbotsford...
Dates:
1979-1989
Symbolae Scoticae
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-10
Scope and Contents
The Symbolae Scoticae [= ‘Scottish contributions’] is a set of eight purpose-bound scrapbooks containing more than 2000 items relating to Scottish history, geography and culture.The bulk of this material consists of 18th and early 19th century prints illustrating Scottish topography and antiquities; but the collection also includes original historical documents, printed maps, portrait engravings, newspaper and magazine clippings, two calotypes,...
Dates:
circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)