Portfolio of drawings by Professor J E A Steggall
Archive, University of Dundee
drawing instruments
The University of Dundee also holds an archive of drawing instruments belonging to Professor J E A Steggall.
Thomas Deckker believed that an exhibition of drawing instruments could be tied into a programme of beautiful drawing, whether by hand or by computer.
Parabolagraph
Science Museum, London
Planimeter
Science Museum, London
Drawing Instruments
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
references
Fred Dubery and John Willats: Drawing Systems
Drawing Systems shows the development of projections in art and architecture and the conceptual principles these bring.
RIBA:
Drawing Instruments
The catalogue of an exhibition of drawing instruments at the sadly defunct Heniz Gallery, London. The work exhibited spanned from the beautiful instruments of the renaissance and enlightenment to early CAD systems.
The RIBA drawings collection has moved to the
V&A.
Science Museum:
Calculating Machine and Instruments
The catalogue of the collection of calculating machine and instruments, analogous in many ways to drawing instruments, in the Science Museum, London. Sadly the Science Museum has chosen to remove much of this collection from display in favour of infantile and patronising interpretive displays.
Science Museum
National Maritime Museum:
The Planispheric Astrolabe
The planispheric astrolabe was an early navigation instrument, a forerunner of the sextant. This catalogue comes from a time when the National Maritime Museum was interested in martime history rather than political ideology, and these are no longer on display.
National Maritime Museum