| Description | Album of pencil and ink sketches, with some prints, by John MACCULLOCH, [1810-1832]. The images, which are generally not dated, are mostly of Scottish scenery and geology, but include caricatures and other sketches, comprising: the Western Isles, including Staffa, Fingal's Cave, MacLeod's Maidens, Isle of Lewis, Skye; Maidenstone of Bennachie (lithograph), 1826; Maidenstone of Pittodrie; trees, ferns and other plants; Dunkeld (lithographs), 1826; oak trees at Knole, Sevenoaks (lithographs); sketches of a naval and military battle with cannon; crab on the seashore; tree on the head of Loch Etive, Argyll and Bute; ink sketch of a devil; rough ink sketch of a gallows, with skeletons, rats and bats; ink sketch of a bear with small mammals; ink sketch of a ship with animals [?rabbits] on the rigging; ink self portrait caricature, with a noose, pistol and skeletal animals; ink sketch of the branches of a tree with hanged man; ink sketch of two naval vessels engaged in a sea battle; pastoral scenes; series of small oval watercolour sketches of moonlit and dusk scenery. |
| Administrative History | The pages of the album had subsequently been used as a scrap book by the depositor's grandmother obscuring MacCulloch's original drawings. This ephemera was removed and the albums conserved. |