Architecture Notes

Event ID 786820

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/786820

NS79SE 6.01 78996 94035

NMRS REFERENCE

NMRS Printroom - Geoffrey Hay

View of the King's Chamber, Stirling Palace, Stirling.

Conjectural reconstruction.

Unsigned, not dated, c.1975

Dyeline copy with wash applied

Notes: the drawing was used in 'The Stirling Heads', John Dunbar, 1975, while Hay was working for the RCAHMS

LORIMER COLLECTION

STIRLING CASTLE, THE PALACE OF JAMES 5TH

Tracings of drawings by J Gillespie and A Muir of the National Art Survey. The original drawings date to 1900 and are executed in pen and wash or pencil and watercolour wash; the tracings are in pencil. One of the tracings is signed 'Measured by Gillespie'.

Acquired by Lorimer via Rowand Anderson or whilst he was with the National Art Survey 1925 - 1930?

(The original drawings can be found in the Monuments Record: see STD/136/34 - 40)

LOR/STIRLING CASTLE/1: 'Stirling Castle. Palace of James 5th. Half inch detail of North Elevation'. Elevation and section of north wall. Not signed and not dated

LOR/STIRLING CASTLE/2: 'Stirling Castle. The Palace of King James 5th'. East elevation. Not signed or dated

LOR/STIRLING CASTLE/3: 'Stirling Castle. The Palace of King James 5th Half Inch details of East elevation'. Not signed or dated.

LOR/STIRLING CASTLE/4: 'Stirling Castle. Palace of James 5th'. North elevation. Not signed or dated

LOR/STIRLING CASTLE/5: South elevation. Not signed or dated

LOR/STIRLING CASTLE/6: 'Quarter full size details of North elevation.

Signed: 'Measured by J Gillespie'

Dated: July 1900

LOR/STIRLING CASTLE/7: 'Details 1/4 full size of figures etc. on South and East elevations of the Palace of James 5th. Sheet 2'. Not signed or dated.