Edinburgh, Royal Circus, General Photographic copy of engraving showing Royal Circus with gardens in foreground Copied from 'Modern Athens'. Insc. 'Part of Royal Circus, Edinburgh. Drawn by Tho. H She ...
D 49693 P
Description Edinburgh, Royal Circus, General Photographic copy of engraving showing Royal Circus with gardens in foreground Copied from 'Modern Athens'. Insc. 'Part of Royal Circus, Edinburgh. Drawn by Tho. H Shepherd. Engraved by H W Bond'
Date 1830
Collection General Collection
Catalogue Number D 49693 P
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 465099
Scope and Content Early 19th-century drawing of Royal Circus, Edinburgh Royal Circus, designed by William Playfair in 1820, was an amendment of an original design in 1801-2 by Robert Reid and William Sibbald for a circus at the western end of Great King Street, the central thoroughfare of the northern New Town. This view, looking east towards Great King Street, shows the sweep of the road as its winds diagonally through the tree-filled gardens of the circus on its way downhill to the village of Stockbridge. Robert Reid and William Sibbald had proposed a circus crossed by an east-west road in line with Great King Street. Playfair kept the required symmetry, but widened the east and west openings to accommodate the diagonal line of the road to Stockbridge. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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