Collage in the Collections
Visiting Scholar Dr Freya Gowrley reflects on her recent stay in St Andrews. During my three-week visiting scholarship at the Library’s Special Collections this summer, I conducted work as part of my research project…
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Copyright ABCs – ‘The Progress of a Water-Coloured Drawing’
Among the beautiful illustrations of the art books in the Special Collections Copyright Deposit Collection, classmark N (Fine Arts), one which stood out was the anonymous The Progress of a Water-Coloured Drawing (c.…
52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 13: John Cook’s unusual perspectives …
This week’s illustrations come from an album of watercolours of St Andrews compiled by John Cook in 1797. It contains the usual views which one might expect to see in this sort of scrapbook: St Andrews from all angles,…
52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 10: the Moody Journal, romantic and beautiful
On 27 July 1822 – 190 years to the day before this post is written – Thomas Moody set off from Paris to begin a tour which would allow him to take a “bird’s eye view” of the “romantic and beautiful scenery in…