Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1690
CBTM:
21985
Map Date:
? 1690
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.49.58
Historic county:
Edinburghshire [Midlothian]
Town name:
Edinburgh
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NT257736
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 2770
Map title:
'The plan of Edenburgh exactly done from ye original of ye famous D. Wit'.
Comments on map:
Birds-eye-view effect: looks derived from Gordon of 1647 [Exeter 21729. Buildings numbered: no reference available. Scale of 1 inch to 90 walking paces.
Scale:
1:2220*
Map-maker:
Andrw. Johnson, Golden Eagle, Old Round Court, Strand, William Taylor, The Ship, Pater noster Row, and Robert Hulton, corner of Pell-mell against ye Haymarket [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
102.0 x 42.0 [map: plate is 104.5 x 43.5].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Pictorial public buildings, etc, fairly realistic.
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Possible conduits in street.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, Parliament
Penal:
gallows, pillory: [Evident gallows [unoccupied] outside Castle].
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
orchards: Possibly: at Holyrood House.
Known copies of map:
NLS EMS.b.12.174(12) [?1646]; BLML Maps 11.e.9 [1690: de Wit]; BLML K.49(58) [1700: A. Johnson: CW4b]; RSGS '306A1', '306A2', '306A3' [c.1708-14]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.647(720) [44243] [1720]; NLS EMS.b.3.21 [1719: Johnson/Smith]; CUL Maps.aa.17.G.14 [1720.c: 106 x 41 cm]; BL K.151.g.13, BOL Gough Maps 43 No 285, [1724-9: Joseph Smith]; BL fol.213.f.9, Edinburgh Library, NLS EMS.s.53 [1730: P. van der Aa: CW4c]; Outlook Tower [?1660: Plan d'Edinbourgh: CW54]; BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, part V, before 275 [1750]; NASc RHP 9466, RHP 10816 [Millward & Dickinson version]; NLS EMS.b.3.22, Signet.s.76 [1797: Johnson/Barnacles]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.647 [G.8838] [1886: Bartholomew]; BOL G.A.Edinb.a.1 [1720/1962: Lammerburn Press]; BLML Maps 54.c.46, BOL (E)C18:45 Edinburgh (57), CUL Views.bb.138.97.1, Views.bb.138.97.2, NLS Map.Fac.s.174(1), RGS MR Scotland S.61 [515575] [1971: Barts, from Johnson, 1700].
Industry:
textiles: [Tenters].
Gardens:
shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Naked female figure with sun to left and figure of Justice to right of dedication to Lockhart; Putti with Scottish flag: on pillar, on which is the scale, sideways-on. To right of dedication: clothed female figure with dividers and globe.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top leftish: castle; top rightish: the city 'from ye Dean'; bottom right: north prospect.
Relief:
(pictorial)
Symbolic elements:
Naked female, sun, Justice, putti with Scottish flag, clothed female figure, dividers, globe: surround dedication and arms.
Crosses:
multiple crosses, (pictorial): [One outside Holy Rood House; more elaborate ones elsewhere].
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial swans on North Loch.
Arms and heraldry:
royal arms, municipal: [Top centre: evidently royal arms of Scotland. Top right: motto 'Nisi dominus frustra'. Bottom left: city arms. Above north prospect and dedication to Archibald Campbell: arms with lion supporters].
Dedicee of map:
Hon. George Lockhart, M.S.P. for Edinburghshire, and one of the Honourable Commissioners of Public Accounts.
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only
Ordnance Survey's
1851-3
1:1056
1:10,560
1876-7
1:1056
1:10,560
1893-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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