women artists
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Album of sketches by Mary Boott
Item — Box CLX-A-388
Identifier: Coll-2063
Content Description
This album dating from 1823 to 1857 contains accomplished drawings of landscape and town views across England and Scotland by the amateur artist Mary Boott. Most sketches are signed by her, dated, and inscribed with locations.Mary Boott (née Hardcastle) was married to American botanist Francis Boott (1792-1863) and would often accompany him on his field collecting trips, and while he went off looking for plant specimens she drew the landscapes they visited. The drawings are...
Dates:
1824-1857
Artwork by former Edinburgh College of Art student Sonia Ali
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1985
Content Description
This collection comprises an artist's journal, a set of handmade CDs, and an artwork produced by Sonia Ali during her studies at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2013/14 (MA Art Space
Nature).
Artist's research journal/book: this research journal documents the artist's thinking and making process for a series of works in collaboration with University of Edinburgh – Evolutionary Biology Dept where she has...
Dates:
2013-2014
Book, medals, and printed ephemera relating to Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy Fraser
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1978
Content Description
This collection includes a printed book with two enclosures, printed ephemera, and two medals related to harpist Helen Patuffa Hood and her mother Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Scottish musician and folk-song collector.
The printed book is a signed copy of The Road to the Isles (Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, 1927) by Kenneth Macleod given by the author himself to Patuffa...
Dates:
1889; 1925-1928; 1946
Collection of typescript and manuscript letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Joanne Soroka discussing tapestries
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1261
Identifier: Coll-1665
Scope and Contents
The tapestries referred to were shown at exhibitions, including the ICA in London. The correspondence illustrates the creative process behind some of the very few tapestries Ian Hamilton Finlay had made. The collection is composed of:- 18 x ts letters and 9 x ms letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Joanne Soroka discussing tapestries commissioned from Ivory Tapestries by Finlay, and written between 20 September 1989 and 7 September 1997 (one is undated).- 26 x carbon...
Dates:
1988-1997
Diane de Bournazel Collection
Collection — Box CLX-A-1727
Identifier: Coll-2046
Content Description
The collection consists of seven manuscript books and one framed illustration created by Diane de Bournazel from 2015 to 2022. These handmade and unique books are filled with intricate densely-packed detail, which draw the eye and the mind into a dream-like world, in which she explores themes that include the natural world, childhood, and human relationships. Each work expresses a sweep of emotions while being imbued with a sense of the inner life. Bournazel uses drawing, painting, paper...
Dates:
2015-2022
Panorama of Jerusalem taken from the roof of the Governor's Palace, by Selina Bracebridge
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2108
Scope and Contents
This is a large panoramic view of Jerusalem originally taken from the roof of the Governor's Palace by Selina Bracebridge on the 16th December 1834. The present item is a lithographed reproduction of the full panorama drawing, in the form of a long strip. [Graf & Soret], [1834].
Dates:
[1834]
Papers of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1036
Scope and Contents
The content of the Papers at shelfmark Gen. 273-286 include a manuscript volume of Gaelic songs, manuscripts and proofs of The songs of the Hebrides, papers relating to The Seal Woman, proofs of Life of Song, and newspaper cuttings. Correspondence at shelfmark Gen. 519-520 includes letters from various members of the Kennedy family in Italy to the family at home, 1879-1880, letters to...
Dates:
1879-1930