Engraved view of summer-house insc. 'A Summer-house in Regent Murray's garden, where the Union of the Two Kingdom's was signed.' Published in 'Some Notes on Moray House, Edinburgh.' in the NMRS Print ...

Description Engraved view of summer-house insc. 'A Summer-house in Regent Murray's garden, where the Union of the Two Kingdom's was signed.' Published in 'Some Notes on Moray House, Edinburgh.' in the NMRS Print Room. Taken from the original publication 'Modern Athens, Displayed in a Series of Views' by Thos. H. Shepherd, 1829.

Date 1829

Collection General Collection

Catalogue Number SC 356265

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of UC 5716

Scope and Content Drawing of the summer house in the garden of Moray House, Canongate, Edinburgh Moray House, once one of the grandest of the Canongate mansion houses, was built for Mary, Dowager Countess of Home, in 1618, and given to her daughter, Countess of Moray in 1643. It is now a teachers' training college. The stone-built summer house, originally the principal feature of the garden, had a lean-to conservatory on the west side, and its principal entrance on the north. Two stone greyhounds (supporters in the Moray coat of arms) stood at the roof-line. The summer house was where, traditionally, in 1707, the signing of the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England was partly carried out. It was completed in a High Street cellar while the cries of the 'exasperated mob rang in the streets'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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