Plan of Edinburgh Castle 1750 /
Fane, Stephen,active 1752-1784.
cartographic

175-?
Plan of the whole of Edinburgh Castle, with sections coloured red and yellow, and cliffs shown with some realism in black, greys and greens. Although this is unsigned, the original National Library of Scotland accession records attribute it to Stephen Fane, who was a draughtsman working in  the Tower of London Drawing Room. Another copy at shelfmark MS.1645Z.02/8b was also done in 1752, by someone with the initials "T.D.", who is proabably Thomas Day, who also worked in the Drawing Room at the same period.
In top right hand corner: title, date and library shelfmark written in ink, "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.
Scale statement reads "Scale 40 Feet to an Inch", with 127 mm. scale bar graded 10-5-10-200 feet.
Has watermarks.
War Office, London. Board of Ordnance Drawings,
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