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White, Adam, 1817-1879

 Person

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

Place of execution, Neidpath Castle, 3 August 1842

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Identifier: Coll-10/3/12(ii)
Scope and Contents

Place of execution, Neidpath Castle. Pen and ink with pencil. 3 August 1842. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist.

Note: With autograph signatures: 'Janet Newton, Mary Newton'; 'stepdaughters of Mr Monkhouse'.

Dates: 3 August 1842
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

[Princess Margaret when a baby], undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/251
Scope and Contents [Princess Margaret when a baby]. Pen and ink tracing. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Engraver.Note: Ink annotation: 'Princess Margaret of England when a baby. (afterwards Queen of James V. [sic, for James IV]) traced [by Adam White?] from an engraving by Vertue in 1748 from a painting in Kensington Palace, in which her 2 brothers Prince Arthur and Prince Henry (afterwards Henry VIII) are represented'. See BM 1878,0914.62 for correction: these...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

[Private Garden], undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/236
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[Private Garden]. Pen and ink. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist.

Note: Annotated pen drawing of a garden design,with adjacent buildings and a distant church visible. Other related drawings on this and facing page have been removed.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

[Promissory note by Sir James Mackintosh], 9 September 1826

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Identifier: Coll-10/7/90
Scope and Contents

[Promissory note by Sir James Mackintosh]. Holograph. 9 September 1826. Mackintosh, James, 1765-1832, Signatory; White, Adam, 1817-1879, Annotator.

Note: The note - for £25 in favour of 'Mr Macdonald' - carries the added inscription: 'Given to A. White Esq by John McDonald a promissory note of Sir James McIntosh [sic]'. The note is mounted on a sheet carrying handwritten biographical details of Mackintosh by Adam White.

Dates: 9 September 1826
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 7. Aberdeen, Angus, Elgin, Banff, Inverness, Argyle

[Queensferry], undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/248(i)
Scope and Contents

[Queensferry]. Pen and ink wash. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Clerk, John, of Eldin, 1728-1812, Artist, Etcher.

Note: Pencil inscription: 'Clerk no.27 [sic]/ Queensfr'. Pen and wash traced copy (by Adam White?) after Clerk etching B33 [Bertram (2012)], no. 26 in King's Collection album BL 191.g.6.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

[Quotation, in Adam White's hand, from James Hamilton's Memoir of Lady Colquhoun, pp. 23-4], 1850

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Identifier: Coll-10/6/169
Scope and Contents

[Quotation, in Adam White's hand, from James Hamilton's Memoir of Lady Colquhoun, pp. 23-4]. Holograph. 1850. Hamilton, James, 1814-1867, Author; White, Adam, 1817-1879, Copyist.

Published in: James Hamilton, 'A Memoir of Lady Colquhoun' (1849).

Note: White references the second edition, 1850.

Dates: 1850
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 6. Stirling, Lanark (Glasgow), Renfrew, Dunbarton

[Sheriff Hall], undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/170(i)
Scope and Contents

[Sheriff Hall]. Pen and ink wash. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Clerk, John, of Eldin, 1728-1812, Artist, Etcher.

Note: Pencil inscription: 'Clerk no. 21 / Sherriff Hall'. Pen and wash traced copy (by Adam White?) after Clerk etching B75 [Bertram (2012)], no. 21 in King's Collection album BL 191.g.6. Another version at Coll-10/2/170(ii).

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

[Sheriff Hall], undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/170(ii)
Scope and Contents

[Sheriff Hall]. 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 B75 [Bertram (2012)], no. 21 in King's Collection album BL 191.g.6. Another version at Coll-10/2/170(i).

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

Sir Wm Wallace & associations with Cartlane Crags etc, undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/6/95
Scope and Contents

Sir Wm Wallace & associations with Cartlane Crags etc. Holograph. Undated. Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850, Author; White, Adam, 1817-1879, Copyist.

Note: Under this title, 7 lines from 'Wordsworth. The Prelude, p. 12 ed 1850' copied in Adam White's hand.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 6. Stirling, Lanark (Glasgow), Renfrew, Dunbarton

[St. Michael's Church], 17 September 1842

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/222(ii)
Scope and Contents

[St. Michael's Church]. Pencil. 17 September 1842. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist.

Dates: 17 September 1842
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

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