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Illustrations

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

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Album of Arms, British and Foreign, with coloured plates, processions, battles, etc., chiefly in Dutch, also known as Michael Van Meer's Album Amicorum, 1614-1617

 Item
Identifier: La.III.283
Scope and Contents This exquisite manuscript of watercolour paintings gives a fascinating glimpse into the 17th century. Little is known of van Meer other than that he was a lieutenant in Hamburg who died on 13th October 1653. He clearly spent some time in London early in the century, as this album has numerous contemporary images of people and scenes in the capital city. The album amicorum (book of friends) is a kind of autograph book collected by early modern students or scholars from Germany or the Low...
Dates: 1614-1617
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Laing Collection / Section III. Bound volumes

Archive of illustrators Alison Douglas Tod and Richard Tod

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2029
Scope and Contents This is an extensive archive of material relating to the children's stories and illustrations produced by this Newport-on-Tay father and daughter duo: Richard, who was active between 1901 and 1917 and who worked both under his own name and as "Uncle Jack", and Alison, who appears to have been busy in the 1940s. The collection comprises draft manuscripts and typescripts, final typescript versions, preliminary sketches on paper and on tracing paper, finished artwork, and a small amount of...
Dates: c 1900-1940s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of book illustrations representing theatrical characters from Shakespeare and Restoration plays

 Collection — Box Df.4.92
Identifier: Coll-2892
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of illustrations taken from printed books, representing characters in costume from Shakespear's plays, and Restoration plays. Three envelopes, labelled: "Shakespeare" (53 illustrations), "Mainly Restoration drama" (24 illustrations), and "To be identified - Mainly Restoration drama" (25 illustrations). Most illustrations date from the 1770s, and have been "Published for Bells British Theatre".

Dates: 1770s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of papers of, and relating to Sir Walter Scott

 Fonds — Box Dk.3.8
Identifier: Coll-2167
Scope and Contents

This is an artificial collection containing letters and papers relating to Sir Walter Scott, acquired by the University as individual items and thus too small to constitute a collection on their own. See the description of each item for more details.

Dates: 1800-1839
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Coloured sketches - Alison Douglas Tod, mid-20th century

 File — Box CLX-D-62: Series Coll-2029/2
Identifier: Coll-2029/2/9 Outsize
Scope and Contents

This file contains a combination of pencil sketches and more complete ink and painted drawings. The main subject is Alison Tod's character, Sally Ann, but there is also a pencil and coloured pencil drawing of dancing women.

Dates: mid-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of illustrators Alison Douglas Tod and Richard Tod / Archive of Alison Douglas Tod

Copies of Macfarlan's Illustrated Family Paper

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-327
Identifier: Coll-1846
Scope and Contents

Three editions the Macfarlan's Illustrated Family Paper, from 1 May 1855, 1 June 1855, and 2 July 1855. The newspapers are entirely hand-written or hand-drawn, including illustrations. Topics discussed include, among other things: events relating to the Crimean war such as the siege of Sevastopol and the Hango Head massacre; the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1855; the Exposition Universelle of 1855 (as international exhibition held in Paris). The newspapers are beautifully illustrated.

Dates: 1855
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence, papers, photographs of William Charles Chapman-Mortimer, which include letters to his wife, illustrated stories and poems

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1789
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of letters between Mortimer and his first wife Frances, dating from 1940 to 1945. These are often illustrated with pen and ink illustrations. Among the letters from Mortimer are a few manuscript poems and stories including a hand-sewn typescript booklet, The Poet and the Hippopotamus. And Other Works. There are also letters to R. M. Rice, 1960s.There are 4 x bound manuscripts, news-clippings extracted from an...
Dates: 1940-1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Diane de Bournazel Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2046
Scope and Contents The collection consists of ten manuscript books and one framed illustration created by Diane de Bournazel from 2015 to 2023. 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: 2015-2025
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Enlargements of illustrations in the 'Syllabus of Physical Training for Schools, 1933', 1934

 File
Identifier: EUA GD55/1/4/2/2
Scope and Contents

Also includes original hard front cover of the publication. These illustrations were used as teaching aids at DCPE.

Dates: 1934
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the Dunfermline College of Physical Education Old Students' Association / Records generated by the Old Students' Association / Records relating to Dunfermline College of Physical Education (DCPE) / Teaching

Figures and plates for publications, 1940-c.1968

 Series
Identifier: Coll-41/4
Scope and Contents The material consists of photographic material, diagrams and illustrations used as figures or plates for Waddington's publications, including: various articles, published in scientific journals, including Evolution, the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology, the Journal of Experimental Biology and ...
Dates: 1940-c.1968
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Conrad Hal Waddington