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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:

Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket, 1810, c 1985

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/K/28
Scope and Contents

Modern phtoograph of coloured print. No provenance or any indication of previous use but possibly framed for 1985 exhibition.

Dates: c 1985
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Geddes Related Material

Edinburgh from St Cuthbert's to St Giles, c 1985

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/K/30
Scope and Contents

Duplicate copy of a rare view by Heller, 1670. No references traced, apparently cut from a magazine.

Dates: c 1985
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Geddes Related Material

Edinburgh from the Main Point, 1894, c 1985

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/K/29
Scope and Contents

Modern duplicate of old lithograph, possibly view looking down High Riggs to West Port and the Castle beyond. No attribution.

Dates: c 1985
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Geddes Related Material

Elevation of west end of hall, 1895

 Item — Box PC6: Series Coll-1167/G; Series Coll-1167/H; Series Coll-1167/I; Series Coll-1167/J
Identifier: Coll-1167/J/19
Scope and Contents

Watercolour cartoon showing the elevation of the west end of the hall with some of the panels coloured. Each of the plans shows the signatories of the University of Edinburgh representatives and artists concerned.

Dates: 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Palin Drawings and Photographs Made For the Decoration of the Interior of the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh

Entrance Doorway, 1895

 Item — Box G: Series Coll-1167/J
Identifier: Coll-1167/J/26
Scope and Contents

Photograph, most likely by Annan, gelatin prints showing the interior and entrance of the McEwan Hall. Mounted. Attributed Annan 14398

Dates: 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Palin Drawings and Photographs Made For the Decoration of the Interior of the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh

Exhibit Captions for the Plaster Model of Edinburgh District, c 1911

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/K/1
Scope and Contents

A card with a caption with instructions for viewing Paul Reclus' Plaster Model of Edinburgh District. See Coll-1167/B/27/23 for photographic images of the model.

Dates: c 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Geddes Related Material

Fine Art, 1895

 Item — Box G: Series Coll-1167/J
Identifier: Coll-1167/J/4
Scope and Contents

A drawing showing one of the idealised figures representing the Arts and Sciences, which formed one of the thirteen separate mural panels in the Dome in the McEwan Hall.

Dates: 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Palin Drawings and Photographs Made For the Decoration of the Interior of the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh

Fine Arts, 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/J/28
Scope and Contents

Coll-1167/J/27-30 show 2 mounted and 2 loose photographs of idealised figures in trapezoidal shape, with no indication of location or origina, but show the name W. M. PALIN in block capitals.

Dates: 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Palin Drawings and Photographs Made For the Decoration of the Interior of the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh

Geddes Children, c 1950

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/K/20
Scope and Contents

Two small moujnted photographs of children, identity unknown but likely to be Patrick Geddes' children or grandchildren, and "On His Majesty's Service" envelope, inscribed "Photos presented to the Outlook tower from Miss I.C. Gorrie." Xerox copies, the original photographs having been transferred to the Geddes Colletion of Family Photographs - see Coll-1869.

Dates: c 1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Geddes Related Material

History, 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/J/11
Scope and Contents

A drawing showing one of the idealised figures representing the Arts and Sciences, which formed one of the thirteen separate mural panels in the Dome in the McEwan Hall.

Dates: 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Palin Drawings and Photographs Made For the Decoration of the Interior of the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh