Architecture Notes

Event ID 773101

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Depicted on the coloured 1st edition of the O.S. 1:1056 scale map (Edinburgh and its Environs, 1854, sheet 36).

Edinburgh, Blackfriars Street, general.

NMRS REFERENCE:

NMRS PRINTROOM.

George Simson (1791-1862), painter.

View of a doorway in Blackfriar's Wynd, Edinburgh.

Insc: 'Doorway in Blackfriar's Wynd, Edinb' 'Taken down in 1871' 'N awanding in ( )'

s: 'Geo.W.Simson'

d: 'May 27th/52'

Pencil and wash.

(14" x 10")

Acc No 1986/5

Purchased by Ewan Lamont, 54 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh 28/8/86.

Notes: Inscription strengthened by a later hand.

Unable to locate at time of upgrade 15.2.2000.