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Craigmillar Castle

Maker

After
(artist)
1744-1817

(printmaker, publisher)
1743-1805

(publisher)
1744-1817

Title

Craigmillar Castle

Date of Production

1782

Medium

printed in black
etching and engraving

Dimensions

Height: 22.1 cm
Width: 27 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6109.32

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Label: CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE. / Is agreeably situated upon a rocky eminence, about three miles south / of Edinburg. It appears by the arms of Scotland placed over the / entrance, to have been a royal Castle : but we have not been able to / discover by whom it was built; not can we give any satisfactory dettail / of the events that have happened within its walls... //

Inscription: Drawn by T.Hearne //

Inscription: T.O. //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: No. XXXVI //

Inscription: Engraved by W.Byrne. //

Inscription: To Sir Alexander Gilmour of Craigmillar, Baronet, / This View of CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE is Inscribed - / By his most obedient Servants - Thomas Hearne and William Byrne. / London: Published as the Act directs 1 jan.1782, by W.Byrne & T.Hearne. //

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