Plans (orthographic projections).
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to drawings, sketches, prints, computer graphics, or works in other media depicting a building or any object viewed from above, geometrically represented as projected on a horizontal plane. The term is particularly used to refer to drawings or other images showing the relative positions of all the parts of a building, or of the parts of any one floor, roof, or other part of a building in horizontal section; it is thus distinguished from vertical sections or elevations. The term can also be used collectively to refer to sets of drawings or other images for a project, including plans per se as well as other drawings, such as sections. For general reference to depictions or photographs showing structures or sites seen from directly above, use ""plan views""For representations of portions of the Earth's surface use ""maps"" or ""plans (maps)"" .
Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:
16 plans and drawings for the construction of the Royal Border Bridge.
File
Identifier: Acc.6874
Dates:
1847-1850.
Album of the Reverend John Kirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11146
Scope and Contents
Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.
Dates:
circa 1814-1855.
Building plans and drawings of agricultural buildings and installations on the Pitsligo, Fettercairn, and Invermay estates.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6780/1-77
Scope and Contents
A collection of plans and drawings of agricultural buildings in Perthshire, Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire. The estates concerned were owned by Lord Clinton and the Forbes family.
The plans were originally numbered in red, but the sequence is incomplete.
Dates:
1871-1893, undated.
Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates:
1636-1963.
Business papers of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.216- is now Acc.10706.
Dates:
Circa 1795-1905.
Charters, other formal documents, and plans, from the Richards and Ashburner papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15475-15500
Scope and Contents
These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.
Dates:
1777-1908, undated.
Copies of an index and inventory of letters and other papers concerning works of civil engineering in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.3325
Scope and Contents
Papers include letters, plans and other papers concerning bridges, canals, roads etc.
Dates:
1782-1841.
Correspondence, accounts and papers of Robert Macadam, baker.
File
Identifier: Acc.11127
Dates:
1836-1907 and undated.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.4.2(i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents
The correspondence consists of letters to Hutton from various correspondents, many of whom were parish ministers to whom he had written asking for information; the papers consist of transcripts of charters and other formal documents, extracts from cartularies and other registers, and descriptions, sketches, plans and elevations of monasteries and other religious buildings. The greater part of the collection is dated between 1788 and 1790, and between 1809 and 1822 (many of the...
Dates:
1785-1823, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert Grieve.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10205
Scope and Contents
Concern Grieve`s work on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan and other working during his period as a senior and Chief Planner, Scottish Office.
Dates:
circa 1945-1964.
Correspondence, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11335/1-227
Dates:
1757-1991.
Correspondence, sketch-plans, and newspaper-cuttings relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1734-1739
Scope and Contents
The undertaking was financed by William Nelson the publisher, and the architect was Hippolyte Blanc, to whom most of the letters are addressed.
Dates:
1883-1893, undated.
Digital images of estate maps and plans of properties belonging to the Maxwells of Monreith surveyed by John Gilone.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13374- Map Library.
Dates:
1777-1778
‘Dissertation upon Pictish buildings and antiquities in Caithness and Sutherland’ by Alexander Pope, minister of Reay, with descriptions of these.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.24
Dates:
18th century.
Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13319
Scope and Contents
The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition was originally conceived in conjunction with the first Town Planning Conference of 1910 organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, at Burlington House, London, to mark the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Patrick Geddes was asked to be its Director and used it to demonstrate his method of city survey. After the conference, Geddes toured the exhibition to cities interested in learning about the latest developments in...
Dates:
1649-1919, undated
Estate and other plans and maps, with some drawings, concerning various places in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.10086
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Five estate plans of areas in Lochmaben, Dumfries and Galloway.
File
Identifier: Acc.11419
Scope and Contents
Plans by:
James Welsh, 1778
William Crawford, ? 1817
William Vernon, 1827
James Tait, 1764 and 1788
Dates:
1764-1827.
Formal papers contained in the further correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Stuart, later Baron Stuart de Rothesay.
File
Identifier: Ch.15528-15530
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise: a certificate, 1828, granted by the Royal Humane Society, formerly accompanying MS.21306,f11; an undated plan of some plots of land for sale in Paris; and a printed genealogical table of the family of Guthrie of Guthrie ?1903, with additions and amendments in ink ?1904.
Dates:
1828, ?1903, undated.
Jacobite plan of battles fought during the rising of 1745-1746, especially Falkirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11302- is now Acc.10091.
Scope and Contents
Drawn up for the information of Jacobite supporters in France.
Dates:
circa 1745-1746.
Letters and artwork proposals, including sketches and drawings, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, with related drawings, designs and papers of Michael Harvey, letter cutter.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13394
Scope and Contents
A substantial archive of letters, papers, drawings, designs and ephemera of Ian Hamilton Finlay, gathered by one of his major collaborators, the lettering artist and typographer Michael Harvey. The collection comprises over 200 letters, notes, proposals and designs of Ian Hamilton Finlay, and a quantity of material including drawings and plans by Michael Harvey created in response to Finlay`s proposals, with some copies of Harvey’s letters. Accompanying papers include a number of letters of...
Dates:
1970-2006
Maps and plans from the papers of the family Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.27638-27847
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1770-1915, 1958, undated.
Note, 1757, of Robert Forbes.
File
Identifier: Acc.8245
Scope and Contents
With unconnected architectural plans, early 18th century, and two poems, 19th century.
Dates:
1700-1899.
Notebooks and sketchbooks compiled by, and architectural plans and drawings made by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton in his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.1-30.5.28
Scope and Contents
The notes and extracts appear to have been made between about 1784 and about 1820, but most are undated.
Dates:
Circa 1784-circa 1820.
Papers, 1769, concerning the feu held by Robert Ord in Queen Street, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8548
Scope and Contents
With a plan of the site of Ord`s house and garden, and a copy, 1767, of building and feuing regulations for the New Town.
With unrelated burgess ticket, 1713.
Dates:
1713, 1767-1769.