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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15510, f 38
Title:: Birds Eye View of the Island of Boo sha la taken from the Cliff above it
Scope & Content:: Drawing of bird's eye view of Am Buachaille, Staffa, with basalt pillar formations. With two men in foreground facing forward, and sun shining through clouds. Unsigned. Annotation: 'Engrd. In Pennant ii. 264' (Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 (1774)).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15510, f 39
Title:: 'Birds Eye View of the Island Booshalá', drawing by Charles Ruotte
Scope & Content:: Drawing of bird's eye view of Am Buachaille, Staffa, with basalt pillar formations. With two men standing on the cliff, seen from behind (right). Signed: 'Ch. Ruotte delin 1774' (bottom left). Ink annotation: 'No. 5' (top right).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1774
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15510, f 40
Title:: Sketch of Fingals Cave, Staffa
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of Fingals Cave. With a single rowing boat and two figures at the back of the cave. Probably preparatory sketch for Add MS 15510, ff. 41 and 42.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15510, f 41
Title:: Fingals Cave, Staffa
Scope & Content:: Drawing of Fingals Cave. With three men in a rowing boat at the front of the cave, two men in a boat at the back of the cave, three men and a dog on shore. Unsigned.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15510, f 42
Title:: Eua no Fin, or Fingalls Cave on the Island of Staffa
Scope & Content:: Drawing of Fingals Cave. With three men in a rowing boat at the front of the cave, two men in a boat at the back of the cave, three men and a dog on shore. Title inscribed below frame. Pencil annotation: 'Engraved in Pennant ii. 263 (Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrid...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15510, f 43
Title:: 'View of Fingals Cave on the Island of Staffa', drawing by Charles Ruotte
Scope & Content:: Drawing of Fingals Cave. With four men in a rowing boat at the front of the cave, three or more men in a boat at the back of the cave, five men on shore. Signed: 'Ch Ruotte delin 1774' (bottom left). Title inscribed below the frame. Ink annotation: 'No. 6' (top right).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1774
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 1
Title:: Sketch of the town of Stromness
Scope & Content:: Preparatory sketch for the following coloured view of Stromness by John Cleveley, Add MS 15511, f 2. Pencil annotations: 'Island of Pomona, Orkneys (upper left); 'see next drawing' (bottom centre).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 2
Title:: 'View of the town of Stromness in the Island Pomona', drawing by John Cleveley
Scope & Content:: Watercolour of Stromness viewed across the bay, with boats and two men shooting fowl in the left foreground. Signed: 'Jno. Cleveley Junr. Delint. 1772' (bottom left). Title inscribed in pencil below frame.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 3
Title:: 'A plan of the circle of Loda in the Parish of Stenhouse in the Island of Pomona with the country adjacent taken from an actual survey by Fred. Herm. Walden'.
Scope & Content:: Plan of the Stones of Stenness, Orkney, based on a survey by Swedish surveyor Frederick Herman Walden. Linear scale above title cartouche. Chart lettered 'D' (top left).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 map

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15511, f 4
Title:: Sketch for 'View of the Circle of Loda at a Distance'
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of the Stones of Stenness, Orkney. Probably preparatory for Add MS 15511, f. 5. Unsigned.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

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