sketches
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Houstoun Family Album
Item — Box CLX-A-1595
Identifier: Coll-2013
Content Description
This is an album used as a sketchbook and a common-place book from the mid-19th century to the 1930s, created and compiled by two Scottish women of the same family. The first contributor is Caroline Elizabeth Houstoun (1840-1926), who filled the volume with well-spaced studies of landscapes and buildings in coloured pencil, pastel, and some watercolour. Some noteworthy sites include Inverness from the Castle, Edinburgh Castle, Euston Station in London, and Saint-Germain in Paris. The...
Dates:
1850s-1930s
Lighthouse Log by Captain Thomas Pixley, 1841
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/24-0092
Content Description
This is the lighthouse journal of Captain Thomas Pixley, an Elder of Trinity House (the official authority for lighthouses in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar) recounting three years travelling through the inland waters of the British Isles inspecting lighthouses and lightships, twice journeying through Scottish water in the company of the preeminent engineers and lighthouse builders, David and Alan Stevenson.In the volume there are eight vignettes of lighthouse and...
Dates:
1841
Notebooks of Cicely Mary Barker and Dorothy Oswald Barker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2887
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of:
A notebook containing a list of work projects, month by month, by Cicely Mary Barker, covering the period 1946 to 1967, with also some details about her daily life. Also includes some enclosures: a postcard from her sister Dorothy wishing her a happy birthday (no date, after 1936); letter from "Dr Evans" [or possibly "D. R. Evans"] to Cicely Mary Barker dated 14 July 1948...
Dates:
1909-1967
Papers of George Ormerod
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-333
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of original sketches, mainly by Ormerod, of landscapes and buildings in Great Britain done during the first half of the 19th century.
Dates:
19th century
S. C. Campbell's drawing book showing sketches of Edinburgh, 1833-1835
Item — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-1848/22-0031
Scope and Contents
Drawing book by a "S. C. Campbell" showing pencil sketches mostly of Edinburgh and its surrounding areas, 1833-1835. There is also a drawing of a mill in Fife, and one of Cheptow Castle, in Wales.
Cottage. Caption: "James".
Bridge over a river. Signed "S. C. Campbell" and dated "March 1833". Caption: "On the South Esk. Dalkeith".
Tree and cottage next to a body of water....
Dates:
1833-1835
Student notes, c 1939-1944; 1969
Series — Box CLX-A-1668: Series Coll-1976/1
Identifier: Coll-1976/1
Scope and Contents
This series consists of student notebooks and notes taken by Anne Davies during her studies. Also includes some University of Edidnburgh pamphlets.
Student medical case notes, midwifery cases at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, 1943-1944. Restricted.
Annotated typed notes entitled 'Diseases of the alimentary system', c 1939-1945.
Annotated typed notes entitled...
Dates:
c 1939-1944; 1969
Two pencil drawings of Old College by Roger Tarr, c 1972
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0159
Scope and Contents
Pencil sketch representing the West side of Old College, viewed from an upper window, with the castle in the background. Signed by the artist, Roger Tarr.
Dates:
c 1972