Drawings. Visual works

Content Description This album dating from 1823 to 1857 contains accomplished drawings of landscape and town views across England and Scotland by the amateur artist Mary Boott. Most sketches are signed by her, dated, and inscribed with locations.Mary Boott (née Hardcastle) was married to American botanist Francis Boott (1792-1863) and would often accompany him on his field collecting trips, and while he went off looking for plant specimens she drew the landscapes they visited. The drawings are...

Scope and Contents The papers include: valedictory address by Robert Louis Stevenson to the Speculative Society, 1873; drawing of David Masson, drawn by William Hole; illustrations of the Men's Union building, and the Old Quad; notes on lectures of Henry Calderwood taken by Dickson; notes on Professor Masson's lectures, 1880; two letters to Dickson from John Ruskin, Honorary President of the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh, 1883; two letters and copy letters to Dickson from Robert Browning,...

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Plans LHB7/57/18A - 18C were found with this collection although they are not related to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Perhaps they were used as a template for the Royal Edinburgh Hospital development. The architects are Geo. [George] Bennett Mitchell and Son.

Scope and Contents This is a booklet containing watercolour sketches of Scottish landscapes by Hilda Burnet Salvesen (later Smith), daughter of Ted Salvesen, and granddaughter of founder Salve Christian Frederik Salvesen, founder of Christian Salvesen Ltd. Most sketches are captioned and dated from 3rd August 1906 to August 1908, which means Hilda would have been between 11 and 13 years old. The landscapes depicted include Strathtay (Perthshire), "Broadway Hills from Ball", "from the Forth Bridge",...