Plan of Edinburgh Castle 1750 /
Day, Thomas,active 1750-1752.
cartographic

1752.
Plan of the whole of Edinburgh Castle, with sections coloured red and yellow, and cliffs shown with some realism in black and grey. This plan was apparently copied by Thomas Day in the Tower of London Drawing Room, in 1752. Another unsigned copy at shelfmark MS.1645.Z.02/08a is attributed to Stephen Fane by the original National Library of Scotland accession records. Fane also worked in the Drawing Room at the same time.
In top right hand corner: title, date and library shelfmark written in ink in inset, and below inset, "B.O" stamped in red, with an upwards arrow.
In bottom left hand corner: written in ink in inset, "Explanation" showing the numbers used on the plan, and what they represent, scale statement and scale bar, and "T.D. 1752".
Scale statement reads "Scale 40 Feet to an Inch", with 127 mm. scale bar graded 10-5-10-200 feet.
Has watermarks.
National Library of Scotland. War Office Inventory,
Marshall, Douglas W., "Military Maps of the Eighteenth Century and the Tower of London Drawing Room", Imago Mundi,
Shows Edinburgh Castle.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Maps, Military