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Watercolor painting

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

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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early 19th century prints illustrating Scottish topography and antiquities; but the collection also includes original historical documents, printed maps, portrait engravings, newspaper and magazine clippings, two calotypes,...
Dates: circa 1850 (spine-dated 1849)

Watercolour annotated "Flacourtia P. Galle Oct./61", October 1861

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/26
Scope and Contents

Watercolour annotated "Flacourtia P. Galle Oct./61" [This must have been done in Ceylon on Cleghorn's journey from Egypt to Madras in October 1861].

Dates: October 1861

Watercolour of Daphne Oleoides, 1860s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/9/3
Scope and Contents

Watercolour of Daphne Oleoides, signed "MSP" (possibly indicating that the creator is Mrs Prinseps). The other side of the page contains a light pencil sketch of what appears to be trees, a forest and a house. It also contains a small list of possibly names of plants and places.

Dates: 1860s

Watercolour painting depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, c 1815

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0050
Scope and Contents This is a watercolour painting of a scene from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake, by Thomas Stothard, signed. The scene depicts Ellen Douglas and James Fitz-James (i.e. King James V of Scotland in disguise) on a rocky shore (of Loch Katrine), with him in a skiff, holding a pole. This is either the moment of going ashore, in Canto I of Scott's poem, or the moment in Canto II, when he departs the next day. The hunting horn (small) with which he...
Dates: c 1815

Watercolours of the Taj Mahal and its panels, 19th century

 File
Identifier: Coll-1619/29
Scope and Contents

Two fine "tourist" watercolours of pietra dura panels from the Taj, and view of the Taj Mahal from the river.

Dates: 19th century