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(4) 54 - Eye draught of Kirkcudbright and parts adjacent
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| Hutton Drawings > [Volume 2] > Kircudbrightshire > (4) 54 - Eye draught of Kirkcudbright and parts adjacent |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74635686 |
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| Description | This map is dated 1790 and was drawn by Thomas Cocking. Cocking assisted Captain Francis Grose (1731-91), whose illustrations feature significantly in the Hutton Collection. This is the only image relating specifically to the town of Kirkcudbright in the collection, although there are others relating to separate sites in Kirkcudbrightshire. Although Cocking's map dates from 1790, it shows that Kirkcudbright had not grown much beyond the medieval town centre that existed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The street running from east to west is 'High Street', and the street that runs north from the west end of the High Street is Castle Street. This leads to the castle and parish church, which are both annotated on the map. The page also includes a larger-scale plan of Castledykes Hill, which stands west of the town overlooking the River Dee. |
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| Description | Kirkcudbrightshire, or the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, a maritime county in the western part of the southern border of Scotland constituting the eastern portion ... of Galloway. [Ordnance gazeteer of Scotland, 1894: p. 421.] |
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| Shelfmark | Adv.MS.30.5.23 |
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| Description | Over 500 drawings, maps, plans and prints relating mainly to Scottish churches and other ecclesiastical buildings. A few depict castles or other secular dwellings. Drawings date mostly from 1781-1792 and 1811-1820. Arranged by county. Some drawings by George Henry Hutton, a professional soldier and amateur antiquary, who compiled the collection. |
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| Shelfmark | Adv.MS.30.5.22-23 |
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