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Drawing

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

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Answers to queries, late 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/5/5
Scope and Contents

Answers to queries made by Sir Archibald Geikie on the form of clouds, dust wirlwinds, heights of British lakes, Petermann's drawings of vertical distribution of plants and the sea bed between Britain and Norway.

Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Miscellaneous

Bombax malabaricum, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/15/1
Scope and Contents

Bombax malabaricum.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Drawings by Rungiah

Capparis grandis

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Identifier: Coll-1619/15/4
Scope and Contents

Capparis grandis.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Drawings by Rungiah

Drawing of Gaddis and goat flocks , 1862

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Identifier: Coll-1619/4
Scope and Contents Drawing of Gaddis, an ethno-linguistic, semi-pastoral tribe group found mainly in states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, India. The drawing also shows goat flocks and Europeans huntng a tiger in the background. The proportions and perspective are extraordinary, but the dress and habits of the Gaddis are portrayed to the life: one can notice the dull-grey flannel coats, inside which little lambs and kids are stowed...
Dates: 1862
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn

Drawing of Joseph Kerr by a Polish Soldier, 1943

 Item — Box CLX-A-1143
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0119
Scope and Contents Signed pencil drawing of Joseph Kerr, from the 67th Field Regiment R. A., British North Africa Forces, done by a Polish soldier in 1943. It shows a portrait of Kerr with a North African landscape in the background, and it is signed by the author with the note '43. Souvenir: Polish soldier in north Africa'. Kerr has added the note 'I wish the background was Bonnie Galloway' in pencil on the side.It is drawn on airgraph letter paper, and was destined to be sent to Kerr's mother in...
Dates: 1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Drawing of sailing vessel, "drawn by J. B. in Oporto", April 1851

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Identifier: Coll-16/V/130
Scope and Contents

Drawing of sailing vessel, "drawn by J. B. in Oporto", dated April 1851.

Dates: April 1851
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black V: Family Letters

Drawings for Cuts, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-74/5/2
Scope and Contents

Set of illustrations of geological nature, including peat bogs, coral reefs, coastline, sand and gravel.

Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Miscellaneous

Fine "tourist" drawing of a pietra dura flower, mid 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-1619/10/1
Scope and Contents

Fine "tourist" drawing of a pietra dura flower annotated "poppy as represented upon tomb of Shah Jahan Agra", indicative of Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

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

Geological Sections of Coast of Forfarshire, c1822-1824

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Identifier: Coll-203/3/1
Scope and Contents

Notebook containing landscape sketches and annotated cross-sections of the coast of Forfarshire in pencil and watercolour, c1822-1824.

Dates: c1822-1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and correspondence on the geology of Forfarshire

Geological Survey notebook 'V V bis', 1897

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Identifier: Coll-74/1/8
Scope and Contents

General drawings made primarily in Greece and Russia, along with notes of those present on the 'Volga Excursion' from the 7th International Geological Congress, 1897, St Petersburg.

Dates: 1897
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Geological Survey notebooks

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