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 2 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
Sketchbooks containing drawings and notes by John Williamson for the illustration of works by Sir Walter Scott
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1301
Scope and Contents
One of the two sketchbooks is titled on the front board, 'Sketches made at Edinburgh, Melrose and Craigmillar, etc, for drawings illustrating Sir Walters Scott's novels The Monastery and The Abbot'. There are several loose leaves and fragments in the second sketchbook.
The sketchbooks contain drawings in pencil and ink and some are coloured or washed. There are notes from lectures in the history of art.
Dates:
1888-1892