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Wright's Houses (Edinburgh, Scotland)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Houses in Bruntsfield Links, Edinburgh, demolished c. 1952.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

The Wrytes Houses, 11 February 1789

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/2/49(ii)
Scope and Contents

The Wrytes Houses. Line engraving. 11 February 1789. Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791, Artist; Sparrow, Samuel, Engraver; Hooper, S. (Samuel), Publisher.

Publisher statement: Publish'd … by S. Hooper.

Published in: Grose, Antiquities of Scotland, vol. I (1789).

Dates: 11 February 1789

[View of Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat], undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/38
Scope and Contents

[View of Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat]. Pen and ink wash. Undated. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Clerk, John, of Eldin, 1728-1812, Artist, Etcher.

Note: Pencil inscription 'Clerk drawing no. 61. Original in King's Coll. ' Pen and wash traced copy (by Adam White?) after Clerk etching B56 [Bertram (2012), identifying Old College as the centre building], no. 61 in King's Collection album BL 191.g.6.

Dates: undated

Wrights Houses, undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/50
Scope and Contents

Wrights Houses. Line engraving. Undated. Mitchell, Edward, 1773-1852, Engraver.

Dates: undated

Wrytes Houses, undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/48
Scope and Contents

Wrytes Houses. Etching. Undated. Westgarth, John, Artist, Etcher.

Note: Pencil annotation: 'drawn & etched by Mr Westgarth'.

Dates: undated

Wryte's Houses, 1794

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/49(i)
Scope and Contents

Wryte's Houses. Line engraving. 1794. Dick, F., Artist; Robertson, Alexander, Engraver; Macqueen, P., Publisher.

Published in: Thirty-Six Views in Scotland: a Second Set (1794).

Note: Pencil inscription: 'Macqueen's Views 1794 no.30 / from the N.E. / cf. Edinr. Mag 1793'. This plate previously published with the Edinburgh Magazine, August 1793.

Dates: 1794