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Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn

 Fonds — Box: Coll-1619, Box: Coll-1619 / E2015.23
Identifier: Coll-1619

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Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of lithographs, engravings, and woodcuts, notes and news-clippings, drawings, sketches, tracings and water-colours, and photographs of drawings. These feature trees, flowers and leaves, figures, animals and places in the Himalayas and across India... Indian life, forests and gardens.

Dates

  • Creation: 17th-19th century

Creator

Full Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Location

507.13.1 last shelf

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The material was previously located at Hall Case L.9, but was re-accessioned and given a collection no. in March 2015. Accession no: E2015.23

Related Materials

The Royal Botanics Garden Edinburgh holds "The Cleghorn Collection", consisting of several thousand botanical drawings commissioned in India, from Indian artists, by Hugh Cleghorn. https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/library-collections/image-collection/indian-collections/ [external link - accessed on 11 March 2025]

Processing Information

Handlist created by H. J. Noltie and Rev. Andrew Grout in March 2008, and keyed into ArchivesSpace by Devika Samanta in August 2022, supervised by Aline Brodin.

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Description rules
Isad(g)2
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Physical Storage Information

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

https://library.ed.ac.uk/heritage-collections
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