women artists
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
La.III.439: Esther Inglis, "Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac", 1607 (dated)
Item
Identifier: La.III.439
Scope and Contents
This manuscript contains the popular religious and moral Quatrains written by Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pybrac. This calligraphic copy of the Quatrains was produced by Esther Inglis as a gift for the New Year ("pour ses estrennes"), offered to Robert Cecil (1563-1612), 1st Earl of Salisbury. It is one of Esther Inglis’ floral, illuminated manuscripts, which she produces between 1600 and 1608. Within her corpus of...
Dates:
1607 (dated)
La.III.440: Esther Inglis, "Livret traittant de la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres", 1592
Item
Identifier: La.III.440
Scope and Contents
This manuscript is a decorative copy of Pierre Du Val’s De la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres, first published at Paris in 1553. Written by Esther Inglis in 1592, when she was around 22 years old, it forms part of a group of manuscripts produced between 1586 and 1592 which show her early experiments calligraphy and print imitation. The other manuscripts in this group are now British Library, MS Sloane 987 (...
Dates:
1592
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