Photographic copy of engraving insc: 'North West Angle of Moray Place. Edinburgh'
A 7648 P
Description Photographic copy of engraving insc: 'North West Angle of Moray Place. Edinburgh'
Date 1829
Collection General Collection
Catalogue Number A 7648 P
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 520271
Scope and Content Early 19th-century view of the north-west side of Moray Place, Edinburgh Moray Place, designed in 1822 by James Gillespie Graham as the huge polygonal showpiece of his new housing development on the Earl of Moray's estate, has been described in the way of private building as 'the most splendid thing in Edinburgh'. Moray Place, built on sloping ground and landscaped with trees and shrubs, forms a 12-sided 'circus', a great open circular space with four streets radiating to Charlotte Square, Royal Circus, Heriot Row and Ainslie Place. The Earl of Moray's estate was described by Lord Cockburn in 1819 as 'the most beautiful piece of ground in immediate connection with the town' where he 'listened to the ceaseless rural corncrakes, nestling happily in the dewy grass'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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