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White, Adam, 1817-1879

 Person

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

Dumfries, undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/5/144(i)
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Dumfries. Pen and ink wash. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Clerk, John, of Eldin, 1728-1812, Artist, Etcher.

Note: Pen and wash traced copy (by Adam White?) after Clerk etching B94 [Bertram (2012)], no. 41 in King's Collection album BL 191.g.6. Pencil inscriptions: 'Dumfries'; 'no 41'.

Dates: undated

Dumfries from the Dock, undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/5/144(ii)
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Dumfries from the Dock. Pen and ink wash. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Clerk, John, of Eldin, 1728-1812, Artist, Etcher.

Note: Pen and wash traced copy (by Adam White?) after Clerk etching B96 (1777) [Bertram (2012)], no. 42 in King's Collection album BL 191.g.6. Pencil inscriptions: 'Dumfries'; 'Clerk no 42'.

Dates: undated

[Dunstaffnage Castle], undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/8/92(ii)
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[Dunstaffnage Castle]. Pen and ink wash. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Clerk, John, of Eldin, 1728-1812, Artist, Etcher.

Note: Pencil inscription: 'Dunstaffnage Castle / No 16'. Pen and wash copy (by Adam White?) after Clerk etching B34 [Bertram (2012)], no. 16 in King's Collection album BL 191.g.6.

Dates: undated

Earl of Crawford's House, Linlithgow, 17 September 1842

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/222(i)
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Earl of Crawford's House, Linlithgow. Pencil. 17 September 1842. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist.

Note: Pencil annotation: 'Earl of Crawford's House, Linlithgow / Waiting for the train Saturday morning Sept 17'. Building shown is the Town House of the Knights of St John, demolished 1886 (Canmore 49179).

Dates: 17 September 1842

[Edinburgh & the north lock with the bank on which the new town is built], c.1750

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/50
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[Edinburgh & the north lock with the bank on which the new town is built]. Pen and ink with watercolour. c.1750. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, Artist.

Note: Pencil inscription: 'View from Castle Hill, about 1745. Original in King's Collection'. Copy [by Adam White?] of Sandby watercolour in BL: Maps K.Top.50.96.b., date c.1750. This item, Adam White's copy, is reproduced in Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh (1966), as fig. 4.

Dates: c.1750

[Edinburgh from Dalmahoy Hill], 6 August 1839

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/91(ii)
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[Edinburgh from Dalmahoy Hill]. Pencil. 6 August 1839. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist.

Note: Pencil annotation: 'Edinburgh from Dalmahoy Hill easter. 9 miles from town, day cloudy / R. Stark was with me. We went after the corallorhiza innata & linnaea borealis'.

Dates: 6 August 1839

[Eldin House], undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/5/185(i)
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[Eldin House]. Pen and ink wash with watercolour. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Clerk, John, of Eldin, 1728-1812, Artist, Etcher.

Note: Pen and wash traced copy (by Adam White?) after Clerk etching B74 [Bertram (2012)], no. 29 in King's Collection album BL 191.g.6. Pencil inscription: 'Elliock' and thus a misidentification of the subject, Eldin House.

Dates: undated

[Escutcheon over the N. Norman door of Crichton Church], undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/140(i)
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[Escutcheon over the N. Norman door of Crichton Church]. Pencil. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist.

Note: Pencil annotation: 'Escutcheon over the N. Norman door of Crichton Church where Blore has made a sort of window / a window over the escutcheon also added since Blore's view'. cf. Coll-10/2/140(iii).

Dates: undated

Figure of a fragment found in the ruins of the vitrified fort, Dundonald, County Ayr, 1841, 1841

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Identifier: Coll-10/5/87
Scope and Contents Figure of a fragment found in the ruins of the vitrified fort, Dundonald, County Ayr, 1841. Pen and ink with pencil. 1841. Landsborough, Miss, Artist; White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist.Note: Original title in ink. Added in ink by Adam White: 'drawn by Miss Landsborough, Stevenstone Manse Ayrshire the figure rather less than original'. Above, in pencil: 'Like the Highland Creese, made of iron and hung by the side of the fire/ handle' [sketched]. Figure and diagram to right by Adam...
Dates: 1841

Fitful Head, undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/8/44(i)
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Fitful Head. Line drawing. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Hewitson, William C. (William Chapman), 1806-1878, Artist.

Note: Ink annotation: 'Fitful Head. The Fac Simile of a Sketch made by my friend W. H. [sic] Hewitson Esq. author of British Zoology'. Copy by Adam White of Coll-10/8/44(ii).

Dates: undated