Portraits
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
Portrait of Alexander Falconer Giles and two other young men at Oxford , 1905-1906
Item
Identifier: Coll-1828/6/6
Scope and Contents
Black-and-white portrait of Alexander F. Giles and two other young men mounted on board, taken at 46 St John Street, Oxford, in 1905-1906.Photography Studio: 'Hills & Saunders, Oxford'.
Dates:
1905-1906
Portraits of Marjorie Rackstraw, 1924-1970
File
Identifier: Coll-705/6/6
Scope and Contents
This file contains 7 professional portraits of Marjorie Rackstraw throughout her life. Many were used as photographs for passports and identification.
Dates:
1924-1970
Presentation of portrait, 1958
Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/45
Scope and Contents
An invitation to and letters from people unable to attend the presentation to John Baillie, at the University of Edinburgh, of a portrait by Sir William Oliphant Hutchison.
Dates:
1958
Print of an early photographic portrait of Ewart, signed, c.1880
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/4/2
Scope and Contents
Not dated. Print marked Adolf Eckstein's Verlag, Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Dates:
c.1880
Pulszky, August von, 4 December 1868, 15 March 1895, 11 December 1901
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/56
Scope and Contents
Three autograph letters signed from August von Pulszky to Katharine Murray Horner, mostly on current affairs in Hungarian politics but also about the family’s well being and business. Sent from Szécsény & Budapest, 1868-1897.1. Dated 4 December 1868: “As to general politics, we have reason to be satisfied. The peace seems assured for next spring; internally, the constitution of last year for the regulation of our relations to Austria is working well; Croatia is glad to accept...
Dates:
4 December 1868, 15 March 1895, 11 December 1901
Pulszky, Ferenc, 1 July 1851 - 23 July 1875
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/57
Scope and Contents
This file consists of five autograph letters signed from Ferenc Pulszky to Lady Mary Lyell and her husband Sir Charles Lyell, sent from Bayswater and Highgate (London), Turin, Budapest, and dated 1 July 1851, 23 June 1857, 18 March 1861, 19 February 1863 and 23 July 1875. Also includes an oval photographic portrait on a larger carrier.1. Letter from Ferenc Pulszky to Charles Lyell, dated 1 July 1851: "I enclose a letter of Mr Mazzini [i. e. the Italian politician and freedom...
Dates:
1 July 1851 - 23 July 1875
Ricasoli, Bettino, 30 September 1861
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/58
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Bettino Ricasoli (Prime Minister of Italy), dated 30 September 1861, to Leonard Horner in Turin, about his visit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the next day: “Saró molto fortunato Se Ella vorrà favorirmi domani al Ministero degli Affari Esteri al mezzogiorno e mezzo [...]”.
Dates:
30 September 1861
Richmond, George, 28 April 1859 [or 1869], 15 May 1867, 21 May 1881
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/59
Scope and Contents
Three autograph letters signed from George Richmond to Mary Horner Lyell:1. Dated 28 April 1859 or 1869: letter of excuse to Katharine Murray Lyell with a reference to her sister, Mary Horner Lyell (“Lady Lyell”), in response to an invitation: “I have just written to Lady Lyell to thank her for kindly offering me 2 convey me 2 your house on Saturday – in the event of my being able to accept the terms of your kind invitation for that day. Still I am sorry 2 say I cannot for...
Dates:
28 April 1859 [or 1869], 15 May 1867, 21 May 1881
Roosevelt, Theodore, [1889]-27 November 1902
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/60
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell, [1889]: “I am extremely sorry to have missed you; I leave for Washington at midnight. It is now I fear, too late to ask you for dinner; but will you not come up this evening, at 9.30? Depew and some others whom I would like you to meet will be here; and I can arrange to see you if you go to Washington [...]”. Includes a clipped picture postcard (showing the White House).2. Autograph letter from...
Dates:
[1889]-27 November 1902
Ruskin, John, 21 July - 2 September [1847]; 27 October [no year, between 1854 and 1872]
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/61
Scope and Contents
Letter sent from John Ruskin to Charles Lyell from Leamington Spa, 21 July [1847];
Letter sent from John Ruskin to Charles Lyell from Crossmount, Perthshire, on 2 September [1847];
Letter sent from John Ruskin to Mary Lyell from Denmark Hill, London, 26 October [no year, between 1854 and 1872].
The two letters sent from John Ruskin to Charles...
Dates:
21 July - 2 September [1847]; 27 October [no year, between 1854 and 1872]