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sketches

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

A translation of "Physionomische fragmente" by Johann Caspar Lasater, with sketches

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1956
Scope and Contents

A translation of "Physionomische fragmente" by Johann Caspar Lasater, with sketches. Watermark 1814. Bookplate of J. A. Jamieson.

Dates: 1814
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw

 Fonds — Box Coll-2019
Identifier: Coll-2019
Content Description This is an album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), comprising approximately 420 sketches. A talented amateur artist, James Skene of Rubislaw was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott who accompanied him on riding excursions to localities that Scott planned to feature in his novels and poems. There, at Scott’s suggestion, Skene made sketches of landscapes and buildings that Scott then used as an inspiration and aide-memoire for his own work. Many of the sketches in this album...
Dates: c 1804-c 1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album of verses, sketches, etc. presented to Mary Goudy

 Fonds — Volume Dk.8.1
Identifier: Coll-2243
Scope and Contents

Album of verses, sketches, etc. Inscribed 'Presented to Mary Goudy by her affectionate uncle John Carson'. Watermark dated 1833.

Dates: 1833
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Archive of illustrators Alison Douglas Tod and Richard Tod

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2029
Scope and Contents This is an extensive archive of material relating to the children's stories and illustrations produced by this Newport-on-Tay father and daughter duo: Richard, who was active between 1901 and 1917 and who worked both under his own name and as "Uncle Jack", and Alison, who appears to have been busy in the 1940s. The collection comprises draft manuscripts and typescripts, final typescript versions, preliminary sketches on paper and on tracing paper, finished artwork, and a small amount of...
Dates: c 1900-1940s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Carmichael Stopes Family Archive

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2907
Scope and Contents This collection consists of around 30 drawings and paintings created by members of the Carmichael Stopes family, compiled by birth control pioneer and sexologist Marie Stopes (1880-1958). The collection is housed in a large portfolio on which she has written "M C Stopes – art", and she has added explanatory annotations to many of the works. The archive includes family portraits, a few prints, landscapes, and architectural and botanical drawings.Below is a list of some of the most...
Dates: 1786-1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of early 19th-century poetry, J. Stuart, 1813-1821

 File
Identifier: Coll-1383/5/3
Scope and Contents

Collection of 19th-century poems acquired by J. Stuart, 1821. Some romantic and other on death and mortality. Contains two pencil sketches of female figure - from Clifton - in 1813.

Dates: 1813-1821
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Ian R. Grant, antiquarian bookseller / Songs and poems

Collection of scripts, posters, flyers relating to Edinburgh University Student Dramatic Society and productions with the involvement of Derek Pugh

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1755
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x folder - Collection of programmes and promotional material of the Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group, Scottish Community Drama Association, and EU Dramatic Society - 'Beauty and the beast', a preliminary festival, 'The empty chair', 'The daughter of the dawn', 'Much ado about nothing', and 'King Lear', 1950-1958. 1 x folder - Printed copy of ...
Dates: 1951-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence between an astronomer, David Little of Granton, Edinburgh, and the instrument maker William Horn, of Allan Park, Stirling, and correspondence between Horn and instrument makers Thomas Morton of Kilmarnock, and T. Cooke & Sons, York

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1555, Folder: SC-Acc-2016-0164
Identifier: Coll-1784
Scope and Contents

The collection of letters is divided into a group dating from 1850 which includes receipts, costs and correspondence between William Horn and David Little, Granton, Edinburgh.


Another group of in the collection is correspondence between William Horn and Morton and Cooke.


There is also a sketch of a comet drawn in 1838 (Encke's Comet).

Dates: Majority of material found within 1850-1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Costume design sketch-book, mid-20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1581/3/7
Scope and Contents

This sketch-book contains drawings of costumes for various Edinburgh University student productions. There are also notes about the costume and fabric.

Dates: mid-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of productions of Varsity Vanities and various dramatic groups / "Document Store" containing duplicates and material related to the Varsity Vanities

Crayon Sketches of Scottish Landscapes

 Fonds — Box Dk.8.2-4
Identifier: Coll-2244
Scope and Contents

Five crayon sketches of Scottish landscapes, viz. Campeltown harbour (2), Erins, Lochnagar, Tam-o-shanter's Brigg. 1857-59.

Dates: 1857-1859
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections