List of Gifts and Deposits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook List of Gifts and Deposits write by Scottish Record Office. This book was released on 1971. List of Gifts and Deposits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Private archives, the group entitled Gifts and Deposits, have been placed in the Scottish Record Office either as outright gifts or as deposits on indefinite loan. They consist mainly of family muniments from all parts of Scotland, but some business archives and miscellaneous donations are also included.
The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674
The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674 write by J. R. D. Falconer. This book was released on 2021-11-19. The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edition of a wealthy merchant's accounts sheds fascinating insights into life at the time.
The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family, 1689-1976
The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family, 1689-1976 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family, 1689-1976 write by John E. Davies. This book was released on 2019. The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family, 1689-1976 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the development of a typical British aristocratic family, its estates and its activities over the period when the landed aristocracy was at its height and over the period when the aristocracy had to cope with increasing democratisation. For over two hundred years, the Campbells of Cawdor were major landowners, industrialists and politicians. Originating in Nairnshire, Scotland, they moved in the late seventeenth century to south Wales, where they became the second largest landowner in Wales and owners of significant coal and lead mines. They participated politically in the British state as MPs, peers, lords of the admiralty including one first lord, treasury lords, admirals and army officers. They supported local good causes, were involved in London 'society' and were major art collectors. As such their story is fairly typical of many other aristocratic families in the period. This book traces the development of the family, its estates and activities from the late seventeenth to the late twentieth century. It shows how they established their wealth and power during the eighteenth century, the period when the landed aristocracy was at its height, how they responded in the nineteenth century to the moves towards more democratic forms of local and national government and how, despite the difficulties aristocratic families and estates faced in the twentieth century, they survived, selling off their Welsh lands and returning to their Scottish base, which remains a flourishing agricultural estate and tourist destination. JOHN E. DAVIES was the County Archivist for Carmarthenshire andis now an independent historical researcher. He completed his doctorate at Swansea University.
Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume XVI
Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume XVI - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume XVI write by . This book was released on 2020. Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume XVI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edited transcriptions, with full notes, of unpublished documents from early modern Scottish history - with subject matter including witchcraft and ghosts.
Scottish Portraiture 1644-1714
Scottish Portraiture 1644-1714 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scottish Portraiture 1644-1714 write by CARLA. VAN DE PUTTELAAR. This book was released on 2021-09-09. Scottish Portraiture 1644-1714 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first comprehensive publication on Scottish portraiture from the period 1644 to 1714, with an emphasis on the painters David Scougall (1625-1685), and his son John Scougall (1657-1737). It is based on in-depth art historical and archival research. As such, it is an important academic contribution to this thus far little-researched field. Virtually nothing was known about the Scougall portraitists, who also include the somewhat obscure George Scougall (active c. 1690-1737). Thorough archival research has provided substantial biographical information. It has yielded life dates and data on family relations and, also, it has become clear that David Scougall had two parallel careers, as a portrait painter and as a writer (solicitor). The legal community in which the Scougalls were embedded has been defined, as well as an extended group of sitters and their social, economic, and family networks. The book includes a catalogue raisonne of the oeuvre of David Scougall. The most important contemporaries of the Scougalls were the portraitist L. Schuneman (active c. 1655/60-1667 or slightly later), his successor James Carrudus (active c. 1668-1683 or later), whose work is identified for the first time in this book, David Paton (c. 1650-in or after 1708), Jacob Jacobsz. de Wet (1641/42-1697) and Sir John Baptist Medina (1659-1710). Their lives and work are discussed. An extensive survey of Scottish portraits, with an emphasis on the work of the Scougall painters, is presented for the period 1644 to 1714. Numerous attributions to various artists and sitter identifications have been established or revised. An overview of the next generation is provided, in which the oeuvres and biographical details are highlighted of the principal portrait painters, such as William Aikman (1682-1731), Richard Waitt (1684-1733) and John Alexander (1686-1767). Countless paintings have been photographed anew or for the first time, and have been compared in detail, which had hardly been done before, while information is also included on technical aspects and (original) frames. The resulting data have been complemented by analysing the social and (art-) historical context in which the portraits were made. The works of the portrait painters in Scotland from this period, as this book shows, now form a solid bridge between the portraits painted prior to George Jamesone's death in 1644, and those by the renowned Scottish painters of the eighteenth century.
