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Hand-drawn diagram. This replaced the Geological survey included in the original Cities and Town Planning Exhibition. Shows west-flowing glaciers skirting Calton Hill, the Castle and Salisbury Crags before advent of railways.

Scope and Contents Comprises two views of Edinburgh Castle mounted on sugar paper (said to be frequently used by Arthur Geddes) for exhibition but at what point unknown. No attribution, possibly removed when mounted. Number on reverse reads 112/119. 1. 'Edinburg', etching of a view, which appears to be from the site of Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. (8.4 x 22.75 cms) 2. 'Edinburgh Castle', etching, This may correspond to Item 11 in the Dublin Catalogue, (Ui Breasail). The spelling of...

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This has been described as an idealised depiction of Edinburgh. The medieval appearance of the town shows only a small southern suburb - showing the Pleasance, but not Blackfriars monastery, destroyed 16th century. 'Survey of Edinburgh' number pencilled on back, 112/18. Originally appeared in Nathaniel Spencer's (aka Robert Sanders) 'The Complete English Traveller' (c. 1773).

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Most likely a reproduction of an engraving showing a perspective view of the eastern side of the castle delineated by Thomas Sandby and engraved by Paul Fourdrinier.

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Tinted lithograph showing west view of Edinburgh Castle. No attribution; no other reference.

Scope and Contents Likely to be a duplicate copy of an engraving by John Shury for Robert Chambers' "Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Scotsmen" (1834). Portrait of James Stuart, Earl of Moray and Regent of Scotland, 1531-1570. James Stuart was the half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and latterly a supporter of the opposition to her party, and Regent during the minority of King James VI from the time of her enforced abdication. For more information see Dictionary of National Biography. Engraving made...

Scope and Contents 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...

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Likely to be a reproduction removed from a printed book, possibly the Scots Magazine, which published the head of the portrait by Scougall in February 1802. An oval portrait of George Heriot, painted by John Scougal, (1698) copied from the original by Paul van Somer, engraved by Lizars and published by Archibald Constable, Edinburgh. (1802).

Scope and Contents A reproduction of a collotype, most probably cut from James Bone's "Edinburgh Revisited" (1911), with drawings by Hanslip Fletcher. Shown is Heriot’s Hospital quadrangle, (built 1628-1700) which is described in John Gifford, Colin McWilliam and David Walker's "Edinburgh" (1984) as "a prodigy of Scot's renaissance Architecture". Printed inscription in left hand margin reads “From Edinburgh Revisited by James Bone with Drawings by Hanslip Fletcher. Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.,...

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Likely to be a reproduction copy removed from a printed book. The original was published before 1740. Parliament House was built by Edinburgh Town Council in 1639. Framed.