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Watercolor painting

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
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

 Item
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

 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

Seven original water colour drawings for Walter Scott's "The Pirate", by Adolphe Lalauze, 1880-1889

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1147/01-21
Scope and Contents Seven original water colour drawings (on six sheets) by Adolphe Lalauze (1838-1905). The drawings were reproduced as wood engravings in Walter Scott's The Pirate, in an edition of the Waverley Novels published in Paris by Firmin-Didot in 1880-1892. This edition of novels was called Walter Scott illustré, and contained 20 volumes, each standing alone and illustrated by different artists. Each volume was heavily illustrated, with our...
Dates: 1880-1889
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Letters of, and other papers relating to, Sir Walter Scott
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