Moray House, Canongate, c 1914

Duplicate copy of Coll-1167/B/8/7a. A duplicate copy or print of Joseph Nash's lithograph of Moray House, Edinburgh which depicts a battle or skirmish outside Moray House at Canongate, Edinburgh. Moray House was built in the 1620s by Mary, Dowager Countess of Home. It served as Cromwell's Edinburgh lodgings and was the scene of some of the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Union in 1707. The building is now part of the University of Edinburgh's Moray House School of Education. The illustration is an example of the surviving mansions of Renaissance nobles. Signed by J Nash. “J. Nash (delin.). Lithographer Thomas Picken, (lith). Day & Son, Glasgow, R. Griffen & Co.; Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.”