Photographic copy of engraved street view from east
EDD 178/69 P
Description Photographic copy of engraved street view from east
Date c. 1700 to 1800
Collection Copies from a collection of material assembled by Edinburgh Public Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number EDD 178/69 P
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 465273
Scope and Content Late 18th-century view of Queen Street, Edinburgh, looking westwards, from an engraving by R Scott Queen Street, the longest continuous sequence of late 18th-century house fronts in Edinburgh, was the northern-facing terrace of James Craig's gridiron plan for his New Town. The houses had an open view of countryside down to the Firth of Forth. James Craig, in his plan for the New Town, took advantage of two incomparable prospects - the Castle to the south, and the estuary of the Forth to the North. Queen Street was laid out as a terrace with its houses on one side only, facing the River Forth. The earliest house in Queen Street dates from 1769, when Baron Orde took a feu or plot near the east end. The house Robert Adam designed for him set a standard for the rest. Feuing continued piecemeal towards the west, and was complete by 1792. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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