Watercolor painting

Japanese illustrated manuscript entitled "Buko Setsugekka" ('Beautiful Military Exploits') by Matsuyama, 1721 (Kyoho 6)

Item — Box CLX-A-1126

Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0104

Scope and Contents This is a guide on how a samurai gets dressed with 21 hand drawn and coloured illustrations on fine paper, dating from 1721, reading right to left. Each drawing is accompanied by poems and descriptions in Japanese calligraphy. The book commences with a man putting on underwear ('fundoshi'), followed by step-by-step pictures of him adding more and more items of clothing and armour, ending with a complete suit of samurai chain kusari gosok armour. This sequence...

Dates: 1721 (Kyoho 6)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Lalanze (A.) seven original water colour drawings for Scott's "The Pirate", Paris, 1880-1892

Item — Box CLX-A-313

Identifier: Coll-1147/01-21

Scope and Contents

Lalanze (A.) seven original water colour drawings for Scott's "The Pirate", Paris

Dates: 1880-1892

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Letters of, and other papers relating to, Sir Walter Scott

Photograph of a watercolour annotated "Patan of 2d Nizam’s Infantry", mid 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-1619/10/8

Scope and Contents

Photograph of a watercolour [by Alexander Hunter] annotated "Patan of 2d Nizam's Infantry".

Dates: mid 19th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Folded sheet of an unidentified madras newspaper containing sketches, watercolour paintings, drawings, etching and photographs

Photograph of a watercolour of a man smoking, 1842

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Identifier: Coll-1619/10/13

Scope and Contents

Photograph of a watercolour showing a man smoking hookah, annotated on plate "M. Pillans Matae Calcutta 1842".

Dates: 1842

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Folded sheet of an unidentified madras newspaper containing sketches, watercolour paintings, drawings, etching and photographs

Photograph of a watercolour of Indian soldier, mid 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-1619/10/9

Scope and Contents

Photograph of a watercolour of Indian soldier, drawing signed A[lexander [H]unter.

Dates: mid 19th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Folded sheet of an unidentified madras newspaper containing sketches, watercolour paintings, drawings, etching and photographs

Photograph of watercolour showing street scene in ?Bengal, mid 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-1619/10/5

Scope and Contents

Photograph of watercolour showing street scene in ?Bengal.

Dates: mid 19th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Folded sheet of an unidentified madras newspaper containing sketches, watercolour paintings, drawings, etching and photographs

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

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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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn

Watercolour of Daphne Oleoides, 1860s

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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