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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45 x 65 mm. Showing a woman and a girl each holding a hula-hoop. As the little girl is holding a stick, they may have been playing hoop trundling.

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65 x 45 mm.

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65 x 45 mm.

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182 x 130 mm.

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Frome created a series of sketchbooks of various formats during his travels. Numbers 1 (Canada) and 4-5 (Mauritius) were missing when the collection came to Cambridge. The RCS sold numbers 2-3 (Australia) to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1970. Numbers 6-7 and 11 had never been presented to the society. The great majority of the contents of the seven sketchbooks listed below had been removed in London, leaving only a few rough pieces.

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Incomplete diary (circa twenty leaves) of a canoe journey from an unspecified point of origin (possibly Edinburgh), taking in Linlithgow, Falkirk, Dumbarton, and Balloch among other places. The final entry describes a visit to Arrochar. The diary contains some ornithological observations.

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166 x 115 mm.

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94 x 60 mm. Photograph of an engraving showing Mary Queen of Scot's bedroom in Holyrood Palace.

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45 x 65 mm. A view of the ruins of Holyrood Abbey.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Drawing details of battleships : Beardmore's Works.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Drawing details of battleships

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168 x 108 mm.

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168 x 133 mm.

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Half-plate. [With a few pedestrians on the cobbled street].

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45 x 65 mm.

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166 x 106 mm.

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96 x 73 mm. A photograph taken by Christy in the year of his graduation from Edinburgh University. The photograph was taken at f8 with an exposure of 1 second.

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.

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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).