Manuscript album of letters, drawings, maps and watercolours

Item author: Walter Bowman
Item date: 1764
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2000
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

An album or scrap book compiled by a bear-leader - a man who conducted young gentlemen on the Grand Tour of Europe. It is a serious record of his scholarly, artisitc and topographic interests and witness to his wide circle of antiquarian contacts