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Records from the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
551 221
Description Records from the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Date 1980 to 2005
Collection Records from the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number 551 221
Category All Other
Scope and Content The collection comprises copies of annual and other reports by RFACS, and photographs relating to its architectural casework, including: Series of photographs of Edinburgh used for consultations and meetings of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland. Scran Captions for the casework of RFACS, 1-1292 in lever arch file. A collection of transparencies, negatives, slides and digital images produced for SCRAN relating to casework carried by the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland.
Archive History The collection comprises material presented to RCAHMS by the RFACS. Two accessions are recorded: Acc No 1980/29, photographs, and Acc No 2005/87, material provided to SCRAN.
System of Arrangement The collection has not yet been catalogued.
Access Conditions Open, but note that access may be subject to provisions outlined in the Data Protection Act and conservation requirements. Please contact the archive to confirm access in advance of a visit.
Administrative History The Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland was a publicly funded body established in 1927 'to enquire into such questions of public amenity or of artistic importance relating to Scotland as maybe referred to them by any of Our Departments of State, and to report thereon to such Department; and furthermore, to give advice on similar questions when so requested by public or quasi-public bodies where it appears to the said Commission that their assistance would be advantageous'. The original commission was staffed by a number of figures distinguished in public life, art and architecture, including Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell, the antiquarian Sir George Macdonald, the artist James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, and the architects Sir George Washington Browne and Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer. In 2005 the RFACS was succeeded by Architecture and Design Scotland.
Finding Aids A partial handlist of the collection, compiled in 2005-6, is available.
Accruals No further accruals are anticipated.
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