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Elevations. Orthographic projections.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Drawings or works in another medium showing the arrangement of vertical elements of a building, either exterior or interior, as a direct projection to a vertical plane.

Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:

Collection consisting chiefly of sketches and drawings by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton; with original binding., 1781-1820, undated

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.30.5.22-30.5.23
Scope and Contents The collections is supplemented by a large number of finished drawings (some in colour), a few maps, and some architectural plans and elevations, professionally drawn for Hutton by others, or done as favours by some of his correspondents, together with a number of separately acquired prints, and engraved views cut out from contemporary printed booksThe collection, which was previously bound in two large volumes, was subsequently dismounted and the items individually attached to...
Dates: 1781-1820, 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.