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Prints. Visual works.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use ""impressions""Avoid the controversial expression ""original prints,"" except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither ""reproductive prints"" nor ""popular prints,"" use just ""prints"".

Found in 264 Collections and/or Records:

Admiralty Print - Firth, Kyles of Bute and Inchmarnock Water - Clyde, River., 1890.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5846 (65)
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: 1890.

Admiralty print - Loch and soundings - Crinan, Loch, Argyll - surveyed by Lieutenant Commander Sabine, Board of Admiralty., 1936.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5846 (122)
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: 1936.

‘Church and Church-yard of Kilbirnie', with notes on Kilbirnie House and Glengarnock Castle, by William Dobie, Grangevale, Beith, 1843; illustrated with prints and photographs., 1843.

 File
Identifier: MS.2118
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: 1843.

Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings by James Nasmyth, and his family., 1796-1885, undated.

 File
Identifier: MSS.3241-3242
Scope and Contents The sketches etc. by James Nasmyth form an almost continuous series of illustrations to his published autobiography, and include: a sketch of Sir Walter Scott, dated 1823 (number 34); sketches of different parts of England and Scotland and of Naples, Nürnberg, Pisa, Venice, etc., all visited between the years 1829 and 1843; drawings and photographs of lunar phenomena, 1847, undated; early drafts of imaginative pictures; experiments in etching, oil-painting, and other methods; and drawings...
Dates: 1796-1885, undated.

Correspondence and papers of John Rennie concerning Waterloo Bridge., 1810-1818, 1934, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19776-19777
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: John Rennie was one of the distinguished group of Scottish engineers whose work contributed so much to the industrial and commercial development of the United Kingdom in the early 19th century. With the exception of roads, in which he appears not to have been interested, and steam engines, which he promised Watt not to build - though he frequently constructed the accompanying machinery - there was very little in the field of engineering that lay outside the range of his activities. This...
Dates: 1810-1818, 1934, undated.

'Disegni ad illustrazione della Divina Commedia, di Dante Alighieri...' being a collection of prints, drawings, etc., archaeological, topographical, and heraldic, formed by Elizabeth Macleod of Cadboll., 1842-1848.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2168-2172
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: 1842-1848.

Geffrye Museum, London, 1974

 File
Identifier: MS.50729
Scope and Contents

File contains the catalogue for the 'Prints and Drawings of East London' exhibition staged by Lucinda Mackay between 30 January - 3 March 1974, and copy prints of artworks. Also includes a press release and a guest list for a private viewing.

Dates: 1974