Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1904-1906 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 volume
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Margaret (Maggie) Ferguson Neilson was born on 28 November 1884 in Larkhall, Lanarkshire. She was the daughter of John Neilson, a wood sawyer, and Isabella Morrison Cleland Neilson. Maggie trained as a primary school teacher at the Glasgow United Free Church Training College from 1904-1906. She never married and continued to teach until her retirement. She died in Motherwell on 5 April 1962, aged 77.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Purchased from Great Malvern Books in November 2018.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Art exercises and notes from Neilson's studies at the Glasgow United Free Church Training College, 1904-1906. These have been trimmed and bound up as a volume, divided into the following sections: Nature Study; Object Drawing; Large Scale Practice; Clay-Modelling; Stencilling, and Ornament and Architecture. A final, unnamed section contains printed copies of drawings, some of which are annotated in pencil by Neilson. Five loose, small drawings of roses in pencil and watercolour are tucked inside the front board of the volume.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
None expected.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The drawings are executed in pencil, ink, watercolour and pastel.