Architecture Notes

Event ID 769750

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/769750

NT27SE 1331.02 26029 74013

REFERENCE

SRO

Calton Hill Monument

In a letter to Robert Adam, John clerk of Edinburgh comments upon the progress of building the new monument. He has drawn it from a window in order to put it into his drawing of the Calton Hill.

1778

GD18/4209/2 (See detail from letter below)

Edinr, 5th December 1778

My Dear Mr Robert

I have been this day looking at the Monument it is now finished ye side towards the Bridge, except the filling up the earth at the Bottom, and whether it will be better as it is or better when filled up time will try. Both mr Clerk my son and my self are pleased with it, the Drysdales are much better pleased than they were, but not quite - this day I sat down and drew it from the Doctor's window, to put it into ye drawing of the Calton Hill which I had formely taken from that place, and in my drawing filled up the Bottom and made up ye yard wall so high as wings of ye building as formerly wrote you - and this pleased hs reverendship very much.

(The rest is about Naval Battles)

For

Robert Adam Esq

Adelphi Buildings

London

(Undated) information in NMRS.