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SKETCH BOOK 9: M Kirkwood measured sketches album. A grey cardboard-covered Art School sketch book with 30 cartridge paper pages (some unused). The front is titled Measured Sketches, M Kirkwood. Ins ...

SK 9

Description SKETCH BOOK 9: M Kirkwood measured sketches album. A grey cardboard-covered Art School sketch book with 30 cartridge paper pages (some unused). The front is titled Measured Sketches, M Kirkwood. Inside there are also notes, tracings, photographs and other detailed drawings. M Kirkwood, School of Architecture, Aberdeen 1948 is written inside the front cover and beneath are two b/w photographs of Delgaty Castle and a swatch of 16 pages of hand-written notes with a few illustrations, titled Further Notes on Tempera painting in Scotland and other discoveries at Delgaty Castle by A W Lyons. These seem to have been written by Kirkwood from an article by Lyons published in PSAS vol 44 1909-10. pp1-12 are full of measured drawings, plans, details , photographs of Delgaty Castle, with tracings of masons’ marks and lettering above fireplace in library; p12v introduces Towie-Barclay Castle, and the next 4 pages are full of plans, elevations, perspectives (all measured) and photographs there. pp 17v/18 contain 5 photographs of carved details in library at Delgaty, and 1 detail of a painted ceiling. p30 - 4are devoted to Kilmorack Parish Church : measured plan, elevations, interior sections and furnishing details by M K; also an envelope addressed to Mrs Kirkwood from the Free Church of Scotland, the Mound, containing a survey by W Glashan in 1973 of the same church, here called Kilmorack West Church.

Date c. 1948 to 1973

Collection General Collection

Catalogue Number SK 9

Category Print Room

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1158055

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