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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 486 Collections and/or Records:

Series of three drawings - Specification and plans for excavating ground for houses in Royal Terrace and forming road to Leith Walk - Edinburgh, Royal Terrace - surveyed by William Playfair., 1821.

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Identifier: MS.5849 (70)-(72)
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.

Seven duplicate plans of government and private properties in Scottish towns.

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Identifier: Acc.3625
Scope and Contents Includes the following:Number 1 ABERDEEN - Proposed extension of piers, circa 1868Number 2 AYR - Sketch plan of barracks property and coal works, 1821Numbers 3-8 transferred to Map LibraryNumber 9 EDINBURGH - Mr Brown's property in Argyle Square, 1861Number 10 transferred to Map LibraryNumber 11 EDINBURGH - Properties formerly on site occupied by the Law Courts, with reference to feu duties claimed by the City of...
Dates: 19th century.

Six plans of details of buildings, possibly Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston, home of Sir Robert Liston., 19th century.

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Identifier: MS.5718
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates: 19th century.

Sketch and plan of additions to Millburn Tower sent by Alexander Ramage Liston to Sir Robert Liston., 1813.

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Identifier: MS.5715
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates: 1813.

”Sketch of Miss Archibald’s property in the ‘Low Town’ Airth, with the surrounding properties., ?18th century.

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Identifier: MS.10885 [2 of 2]
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates: ?18th century.

Sketch-plans relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle., 1883-1893, undated.

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Identifier: MS.1739 [Map Library]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.