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Architectural drawings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Drawings of architecture and drawings for architectural projects, whether the project was executed or not.

Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:

53 architectural drawings from the Saltoun Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10444
Scope and Contents

Includes drawings by Alexander McGill, William Adam, John or James Adam, notably sets of drawings for Burnstane house and Inveraray Castle.

Dates: circa 1700-mid 19th century.

Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3646
Scope and Contents

The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).

Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.

Dates: 1851, 1858-1919, undated.

Architectural drawings of and concerning the Free Church of Scotland., 1853-1927, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19198
Scope and Contents Contains architectural drawings relating to the Free Church Assembly Hall, 1853 (numbers 1-2); the Free Church buildings on the Mound, 1906 (number 3); various sizes of churches by different architects, 1907-1908 (numbers 4-21); the Colegio Anglo Peruano in Lima, 1927 (numbers 22-23); the Law Society of Scotland property adjacent to the Free Church College in Edinburgh, undated (numbers 24-25); 'Craigmichen’, St Albans Road, Edinburgh, undated (number 26); a mission hall at Knock, undated...
Dates: 1853-1927, undated.

Architectural drawings of Mountinelville House, Fife, and its outbuildings.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.8.4
Scope and Contents

The plans of the house (folio 2) are signed by Robert Hutchison and Alexander Dick, and those of the mausoleum and wash-house (folio 8) are by James Gillespie Graham.

Dates: 1820-1821, 1828.

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.

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.