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Watercolor painting

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
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

 Item
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

Sepoy – German watercolour, c 1785

 File — Box Coll-2106 - Box 2
Identifier: Coll-2106/111
Scope and Contents Sepoy – German watercolour, ca. 1785.1 watercolour: undated. Watercolour picture, colourful, of a Sepoy. Manuscript title: "Ein Seapoi oder ostindischer englischer Compagnie Soldat." Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Notes on the picture, physical description. Also notes on the picture: It is the original of a copperplate illustration included in the "Historisch-Genealogischer Calender oder Jahrbuch der merkwürdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten für...
Dates: c 1785
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Stumpff Collection of Orientalists
pp. 8-9
pp. 8-9

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early 19th century prints illustrating Scottish topography and antiquities; but the collection also includes original historical documents, printed maps, portrait engravings, newspaper and magazine clippings, two calotypes,...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)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Folded sheet of Edinburgh Evening Courant containing sketches and watercolours

Watercolour painting, mid 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/10/3
Scope and Contents

Watercolour annotated "Timber Slide in Pundbun on Vhumie ka koh, Bara Bansu".

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

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