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Duplicate copy of Coll-1167/B/8/4. A duplicate copy of an engraving. Portrait of George Buchanan, 1506 - 1582, (historian and classical scholar; tutor (preceptor) to King James VI, late sixteenth century). Buchanan was a supporter of the Reformation. See Dictionary of National Biography for more information. Artist unkown.

Scope and Contents Likely to be a duplicate copy of an engraving by John Shury for Robert Chambers' "Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Scotsmen" (1834). Portrait of James Stuart, Earl of Moray and Regent of Scotland, 1531-1570. James Stuart was the half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and latterly a supporter of the opposition to her party, and Regent during the minority of King James VI from the time of her enforced abdication. For more information see Dictionary of National Biography. Engraving made...

Scope and Contents Duplicate copy or print of Joseph Nash's lithograph of Moray House, Edinburgh which depicts a battle or skirmish outside Moray House at Canongate, Edinburgh. Moray House was built in the 1620s by Mary, Dowager Countess of Home. It served as Cromwell's Edinburgh lodgings and was the scene of some of the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Union in 1707. The building is now part of the University of Edinburgh's Moray House School of Education. The illustration is an example of the...

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Likely to be a reproduction removed from a printed book, possibly the Scots Magazine, which published the head of the portrait by Scougall in February 1802. An oval portrait of George Heriot, painted by John Scougal, (1698) copied from the original by Paul van Somer, engraved by Lizars and published by Archibald Constable, Edinburgh. (1802).

Scope and Contents A reproduction of a collotype, most probably cut from James Bone's "Edinburgh Revisited" (1911), with drawings by Hanslip Fletcher. Shown is Heriot’s Hospital quadrangle, (built 1628-1700) which is described in John Gifford, Colin McWilliam and David Walker's "Edinburgh" (1984) as "a prodigy of Scot's renaissance Architecture". Printed inscription in left hand margin reads “From Edinburgh Revisited by James Bone with Drawings by Hanslip Fletcher. Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.,...

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Likely to be a reproduction copy removed from a printed book. The original was published before 1740. Parliament House was built by Edinburgh Town Council in 1639. Framed.

Scope and Contents Framed print of a pen and ink watercolour, a copy of a drawing by James Skene of Rubislaw. The Earl of Haddington's House was built and occupied by the Earl of Haddington; approximately on the site of the “Cunzie House” or the Old Mint, and later of George IV Bridge. The building was sometimes referred to as “The French Ambassador's House”. See Robert Chamber's "Traditions of Edinburgh" (1868) in which there is a small picture of a house, identical with this item, which is described as the...

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Likely to be a duplicate reproduction of an engraving by John Elphinstone, engraved by Nathaniel Parr. Detailing the “Prospect of the Grayfriers’ Kirk [sic], Edinburgh from the South West.” See Edinburgh (Central) Public Library, Edinburgh Room Catalogue, p. 203.

Scope and Contents Two engravings on mount. 1. A portrait of Alexander Henderson, 1583-1646. Henderons was one of the principal members of the committee which drew up the National Covenant (1638) which marks the beginning of the democratic form of government of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. 2. A portrait of Archibald Campbell Marquis of Argyle (1598-1661) created from an original portrait in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Argyll at Inveraray. Campbell was a statesman and adviser to King Charles...

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Portrait of Thomas Dalyell of Binns, 1615–1685, who was a professional soldier, royalist and eventually Commander-in-Chief in Scotland. Binns is remembered for his unrelenting persecution of the Covenanters during the “Killing Time”, 1661 - 1685. From an original painting in possession of Sir James Dalyell of Binns, Bart. Published by Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh & London, c. 1834.