Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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Half-plate (landscape format). John Brown's shipyards and an 150 ton crane (of English manufacture : those at Barrow are of German make).

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167 x 107 mm.

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115 x 167 mm.

Scope and Contents Margaret Mackenzie was born in Knockbain, Easter Ross, Scotland, in 1789, the fourth child and second daughter of the clergyman Roderick Mackenzie. Her mother Margaret (May) was the sister of the director of the East India Company, Charles Grant. In 1820, she married the Revd William Fraser, and the couple travelled to India, where he was a chaplain with the East India Company. Margaret’s correspondence with her family documents her experience of early nineteenth-century India and also...

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Christy's degrees for M.B. and C.M. from the University of Edinburgh.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [General view of ruined abbey].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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204 x 133 mm. A view showing the new University buildings. Photograph by James Valentine and Co.

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Contains loose prints, some mounted, of events outside Malay but relating to it - visits of Malayan notables to the U.K., trade exhibitions, gatherings of the British Association of Malaysia and other events.

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203 x 135 mm. A view from inside the quadrangle looking towards the dome of the Old University. Photograph by James Valentine and Co.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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202 x 150 mm. Showing a crowded carriage pair on a road through the Pass. Reproduction of an original photograph by James Valentine and Co.

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165 x 106 mm.

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Half-plate (landscape format). And for compressing air for pneumatic tools : the only gas power house in a shipyard in Scotland : Beardmores near Glasgow.

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Half-plate (landscape format).

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65 x 45 mm.

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65 x 45 mm.

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65 x 45 mm.

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65 x 45 mm. A view of the cottage where Robert Burns, Scotland’s National bard, was born.

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180 x 130 mm.

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136 x 99 mm.

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65 x 45 mm. A view of an aeroplane parked in front of grey metal hangers. The number 'D4606' is visible on the tail fin. There is a vehicle to the left, with three men visible, handling crates.

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200 x 135 mm. A view looking across a field of sheep towards the turrets and spires of the Royal Infirmary. Photograph by J. Patrick.