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Pen and ink sketches of William Stewart Watson, whilst on tour in Rome in 1840
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1432
Scope and Contents
Folio album of original pen and ink sketches compiled by the artist while on a tour of Rome in 1840. The album contains over 250 mounted drawings executed on tracing paper and these vary in size from a few inches square to full and half-page preparatory sketches for paintings. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards. Signed Stewart Wilson, Rome 1840, on inner cover, above which is mounted the main section of the title page for the sale catalogue, March 1887, of the 'Collection of...
Dates:
1840
Photograph album of Sheena Tennant Kendall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2054
Content Description
This is a photograph album of Sheena Lillian Grant Tennant Kendall (1883-1974), composer and daughter of wealthy Scottish industrialist James Tennant. Kendall is well identified in the album, which documents a period of residence in Japan (1921-24), as well as travels in Egypt, Burma, Ceylon, Malaysia and Shanghai, and their life at Scottish and English country estates. It also includes 19 photos of Hakone, Japan in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923; images of horse racing in...
Dates:
1920s
Photograph album related to the Gotch-Robinson High School (or Shoushan Middle School)
Item
Identifier: Coll-1998
Content Description
This is an album containing approxmately 147 photographs with captions, showing staff, students, premises and scenes from the Gotch-Robinson High School (also known as Shoushan Middle School) in the 1920s. The school was a British Baptist school located in Tsingchowfu, Shantung, in North China. It was founded in 1917 by the English Baptist Missionary Society, and was dissolved in 1929 amid the changes in the education system after the Nationalists took over Shandong province.The album...
Dates:
1926-1929
Photograph album showing Fez, Morocco
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2015
Content Description
This is a photo album containing 37 photographs of Fez, Morocco. The photographs mostly show everyday life in the streets and houses of Fez. Four photos show general views of the city. On the reverse there is the stamp of Joseph Bouhsira, one of the first Moroccan photographers who opened his studio in the Jewish quarter of Fez in the early 1910s.
Dates:
early 20th century
Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, including two manuscript poems by Walter de la Mare
Item — Box: CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1834
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, sister-in-law of poet Walter de la Mare. It contains numerous newspaper clippings, some relating to de la Mare's fiction and articles by him; and two unpublished poems by Walter to his nephew James Roy Delamare.
Dates:
1884-1950
Scrapbooks of Iain Moffatt-Pender
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1140
Identifier: Coll-1896
Scope and Contents
Two personal scrapbooks of writer and Gaelic revivalist Iain Moffatt-Pender, comprising mostly clippings, photographs, and correspondence which together throw an interesting light on the social milieu of Scottish Gaelic revivalism in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, including links with Irish artists and academics.The first album contains several black-and-white family photographs dating from the beginning and middle of the 20th century, a letter from John Macmillan dated 5...
Dates:
1950s-1960s
Sketchbooks by R. M. Ballantyne, including seven autograph letters
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-327
Identifier: Coll-1838
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two sketchbooks by Scottish writer R. M. Ballantyne:1. The first sketchbook is made of approximately 85 leaves, almost all of which bear original drawings (pencil, ink and ink-and wash), cartoons, sketches and preliminary ideas. Some are
highly finished images intended for a subsequently abandoned book of his fishing trip
to Norway, as well as material for the published 'Freaks on the Fells'. On the first
blank is Ballantyne's presentation inscription to the...
Dates:
1860s
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.
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
Symbolae Scoticae
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-10
Scope and Contents
The Symbolae Scoticae [= ‘Scottish contributions’] is a set of eight purpose-bound scrapbooks containing more than 2000 items relating to Scottish history, geography and culture.The bulk of this material consists of 18th and early 19th century prints illustrating Scottish topography and antiquities; but the collection also includes original historical documents, printed maps, portrait engravings, newspaper and magazine clippings, two calotypes, and original...
Dates:
circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)
The Allinson Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-39
Scope and Contents
The collection of Allinson Papers consists of a mixed box of small printed items and pamphlets, posters, photographs, and bundles of newspaper and magazine cuttings; a number of scrapbook albums containing mainly newspaper cuttings relating to Allinson, and dating variously from 1881 to 1918; and, folders containing scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings, handbills, and lecture posters from the 1880s to 1918.For more details on the contents of the collection, see the box list. You can also see a...
Dates:
1881-1928; 1984
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- Ato Printing Association (fl 1922-1944) (Japanese photography company) 1
- Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 1
- Boott, Mary, fl 1824-1857 (née Hardcastle | artist) 1
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- Drake, Frederick Seguier, 1892-1974 (English Baptist priest; Dean of the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong) 1
- Drummond, Frances A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Drummond, Jean, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Drummond, Victoria A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Gemmell, Alice Caroline Anne, 1879-1951 (daughter of Caroline Elizabeth Houstoun) 1
- Harman, Nathaniel Bishop-, fl 1890-1935 (physician) 1
- Hjort, Johan, 1869-1948 (fisheries scientist, marine zoologist, oceanographer) 1
- Houstoun, Caroline Elizabeth , 1840-1926 (granddaughter of General Sir Robert Houstoun KCB) 1
- Jackson, Ellen Julia, fl 1876-1919 (wife of Sir John Jackson) 1
- Jackson, John, Sir, 1851-1919 (civil engineer; engineering contractor) 1
- John, Henry Craven St, 1837-1909 (Royal Navy Officer) 1
- Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 1
- Lumsden, Susy F, fl 1910s (treasurer of 'The Cavalier club') 1
- Mare, Violet de la, 1874-1962 (sister-in-law of Walter de la Mare) 1
- Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 1
- Mortimer, William Charles Chapman-, 1907-1988 (novelist; pen-name Chapman Mortimer) 1
- Pender, Iain McAllister Moffatt-, 1896-1961 (Scottish writer and Gaelic revivalist) 1
- Skene, James, 1775-1864 (lawyer and artist) 1
- Smythe, Barbara E, b 1899 (editor of The Cavalier) 1
- Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 (mathematician and physicist) 1
- The Royal National Mòd (1892-) 1
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
- Watson, James Kenneth, fl.1885-1896 (surgeon) 1
- Watson, William Stewart, 1800-1870 (Scottish painter and artist) 1
- White, Adam, 1817-1879 (naturalist) 1
- Williamson, John, fl. 1888-1894 (novelist, playwright and poet) 1
- Zaharoff, Basil, 1849-1936 (arms-dealer, industrialist) 1 ∧ less
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