Sketchbooks & albums
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Scrapbook of John Donaldson, Reid Professor of the Theory of Music, 1850s
Item
Identifier: Mus.f.379
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook containing Donaldson's collection of cuttings (including one from The Scotsman 24 April 1858 re his purchases of many items for the Reid library from Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn in Berlin), pamphlets (including several collected at the Great Exhibition of 1851), handbills and advertisements describing and advertising various types of musical instrument.Donaldson made considerable acquisitions of both musical instruments and scores for the Reid and was the driving force...
Dates:
1850s
Scrapbooks of Iain Moffatt-Pender
Collection — Box CLX-A-1140
Identifier: Coll-1896
Scope and Contents
Two personal scrapbooks of writer and Gaelic revivalist Iain Moffatt-Pender, comprising mostly clippings, photographs, and correspondence which together throw an interesting light on the social milieu of Scottish Gaelic revivalism in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, including links with Irish artists and academics.The first album contains several black-and-white family photographs dating from the beginning and middle of the 20th century, a letter from John Macmillan...
Dates:
1950s-1960s
Sketchbook albums of William Graham (1855-1922), 1880s-1899
Sub-Fonds — CLX-A-347
Identifier: coll-1835/2
Scope and Contents
1. Sketchbook of William Graham containing sketches of Scottish and foreign landscapes, poems, photographs, humoristic illustrations, and illustrations of old bank notes. Also contains sketches by Charles Altamont Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and George Smith-Graham (brother of William Graham). 1880s.2. 'Norway Sketch Book' by William Graham. Travel diary of William Graham when he visited Norway in 1889. Contatins some sketches, photographs, and newspaper...
Dates:
1880s-1899
Sketchbooks by R. M. Ballantyne, including seven autograph letters
Fonds — Box CLX-A-327
Identifier: Coll-1838
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two sketchbooks by Scottish writer R. M. Ballantyne:1. The first sketchbook is made of approximately 85 leaves, almost all of which bear original drawings (pencil, ink and ink-and wash), cartoons, sketches and preliminary ideas. Some are
highly finished images intended for a subsequently abandoned book of his fishing trip
to Norway, as well as material for the published 'Freaks on the Fells'. On the first
blank is Ballantyne's presentation inscription...
Dates:
1860s
Sketchbooks containing drawings and notes by John Williamson for the illustration of works by Sir Walter Scott
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1301
Scope and Contents
One of the two sketchbooks is titled on the front board, 'Sketches made at Edinburgh, Melrose and Craigmillar, etc, for drawings illustrating Sir Walters Scott's novels The Monastery and The Abbot'. There are several loose leaves and fragments in the second sketchbook.
The sketchbooks contain drawings in pencil and ink and some are coloured or washed. There are notes from lectures in the history of art.
Dates:
1888-1892