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Sections. Orthographic projections.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Orthographic drawings or works in another media depicting a building, object, or site as if cut through and exposed at one specific plane.

Found in 230 Collections and/or Records:

Series of six drawings - Cellars and sections of houses - Edinburgh, Royal Terrace - surveyed by William Playfair., 1821.

 File
Identifier: MS.5849 (73)-(78)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.

Dates: 1821.

Series of three drawings - Sections of piers for new harbour - St. Andrews, Fife - surveyed by Robert Stevenson., 1815.

 File
Identifier: MS.5862 (1)-(3)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.

Dates: 1815.