Design drawings.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Drawings intended to work out the scheme of a project, whether the project is expected to be executed or not; more finished than sketches.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: MS.14276
Scope and Contents
As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).
Dates:
1818-1827.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning gifts of show-cases for the library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/57
Dates:
1906.
Microfilm of drawings of Sir Robert Sibbald, correspondence of Robert Adam, architect, and designs of interior decoration and furniture.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.543
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Collection of original drawings, 2nd half of 17th century, by Sir Robert Sibbald, of fish, birds, plants, etc. (Adv.MS.6.1.14);
Correspondence, 1789-1791, of Robert Adam the architect and his Edinburgh clerk of works, John Paterson (MS.19992);
Book, late 18th century, of designs of interior decoration and furniture, in the classical style. (MS.2876).
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-late 18th century.