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Moray Place
Unknown, 1829, Pencil work
Moray Place
Moray Place
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Item no
21470
Title
Moray Place
Description
Pencil sketch showing the garden and buildings of Moray Place in the New Town. The garden has a lawn which is interspersed with shrubbery and a few trees. There is a large circular bed of plants in the middle with a path around it. The buildings have many storeys and have many windows. Between the gap in the buildings a rural landscape with a few buildings can be seen with the Firth of Forth behind it, and hilly landscape of Fife in the distance.
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Unknown
Date
1829
Size
16.2 x 24.8 cm
Type
Pencil work
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Moray Place was part of the mid-nineteenth century development which took place on lands feued by the Earl of Moray, immediately to the north-west of the first New Town. The plan was devised by James Gillespie Graham, and also includes Ainslie Place, Randolph Crescent and Doune Terrace.
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Whose Town? Robert Louis Stevenson
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