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Architecture Notes
Event ID 773101
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/773101
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.