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Engravings. Prints.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to prints on paper incorporating impressions of a reverse design created on a printing plate, usually copper, into which the design has been incised (engraved) using burins or gravers. Historically, ""engravings"" has sometimes been incorrectly used to refer to all prints, regardless of the specific technique. For prints made from designs engraved on a flat wooden block, use ""wood cuts""; for prints made from a plate that is etched rather than engraved, use ""etchings"" .

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Specimen engravings for armorial designs by Hector Gavin, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11729
Scope and Contents

One of the two volumes includes work by other engravers.

Dates: circa 1824-1836.

Three letters to Julian Marshall.

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Identifier: Acc.8733
Scope and Contents

Concerning portraits of Handel.

With an engraved portrait of Handel.

Dates: 1855-1883.

Treatise on heraldry, closely related to ‘A System of Heraldry’ by Alexander Nisbet, but very much shorter.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.2.2
Scope and Contents

The treatise was compiled in the reign of James VII, 1685-1701 (see folio 38) and quotes from authorities such as Menestrier, Guillim and Sir George Mackenzie.

Engraved plates illustrating various arms have been inserted, most of which examples are to be found in ‘A System of Heraldry’, by Alexander Nisbet.

Dates: 1685-1701.

Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.9
Scope and Contents

The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).

Dates: 1522-1613.

Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents

The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).

Dates: 1700-1707, or after.