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Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
[Art, Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Map printing]
Work Record ID
0043404
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
[Art, Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Map printing]
Work Record ID
0043404
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
[Art, Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Map printing]
Work Record ID
0043404
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
[Art, Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Map printing]
Work Record ID
0043404
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
[Art, Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Map printing]
Work Record ID
0043404
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
[Art, Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Map printing]
Work Record ID
0043404
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
[Art, Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Map printing]
Work Record ID
0043404
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
Roads
Work Record ID
0042661
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
Roads
Work Record ID
0042661
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Work Record ID
0043937
Subject Place
[Scotland, Scotland - coasts]
Subject Category
[British Isles, Nautical charts]
Description
Dating from 1583, this map by Nicolas de Nicolay is the first printed sea chart of Scotland. It was based on an earlier manuscript dating from 1546. The outline is much more accurate than any previous maps of Scotland, and is better than many 17th century ones too! Apart from a few regions, all the place names refer to coastal features such as capes, firths and ports. This chart was published to accompany 'La Navigation du Roy D'Ecosse Jacques Cinquiesme', a book recounting the journey around the coast of Scotland by King James V guided by his pilot Alexander Lyndsay.
Work Record ID
0042784
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
A map of Scotland from 1689 by Jean Baptiste Nolin, a Paris engraver who published atlases and maps. On the right are inset maps of Orkney, Shetland and the Faeroes. Hills and forests are illustrated, and most notable is the alignment of several islands (e.g., Arran), the shape of Lewis, and the 'Lochaber Desert'. This map is based almost entirely on Sanson's 1665 map and was redrawn by Vicenzo Maria Coronelli (d. 1718), cosmographer to the Republic of Venice. Another French geographer who revised Coronelli's maps, Nicolas de Tralage ('Sieur de Tillemon') is also mentioned. Coronelli founded the world's first geographical society, the Academia degli Argonauti, in 1680. Nolin was convicted of cartographic plagiarism in 1700.
Work Record ID
0042156
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0044113
Subject Place
[Dumbarton Castle, Scotland]
Subject Category
[Board of Ordnance, Maps, Military]
Description
This sheet is divided into three panels. The smaller top and bottom panels contain the title, year and engineer's name, and the 'Refference' and scale bar. The middle panel, which constitutes the main body of the sheet, contains a plan of Dumbarton Castle in 1709, and the proposed improvements, with details of the rock, the Firth of Clyde and the River Leven. There is a faint draft image in the upper left hand side of the castle plan, which may indicate older works. The upper right hand third of the sheet has numbered grid lines drawn in pencil behind the main drawing. The proposed new works shown are a house for the Governor and Deputy Governor, a wall along the waterside, 'taking In a Parrade which is Mightily wanting in the Castle', a vault for the powder magazine, an additional storehouse, 'a Passage Cutt through the Rock, to mount the Same with more Ease & under cover', and a gate 'under Cover of the Rock', with 'Barriers in front of the Gate.'
Work Record ID
0043174
Subject Place
[Berwickshire, Kelso, Liddesdale, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Scottish Borders]
Subject Category
Roads
Work Record ID
0043450
Subject Place
[Berwickshire, Kelso, Liddesdale, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Scottish Borders]
Subject Category
Roads
Work Record ID
0043450
Subject Place
[Berwickshire, Kelso, Liddesdale, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Scottish Borders]
Subject Category
Roads
Work Record ID
0043450
Subject Place
[Ardoch, Perthshire, Scotland]
Description
Two manuscript copies of a 'Plan of the lands of Quigs and Balhalldies with the muirs and hills thereunto belonging' surveyed and drawn in 1736 by Robert Ogilvie. It is drawn in ink with black wash for the relief. One manuscript appears to be a rough draft as it has several omissions and the writing is untidy and includes a spelling error crossed out in the title. The final fair copy includes standing stones which are not on the first draft. The plan shows the boundaries of the properties and gives the acreage in a marginal note. The lands of Quigs were 948 acres and Balhalldies 541 acres. There is little enclosure but a head dyke is shown between the properties.
Work Record ID
0042504
Subject Place
[Ardoch, Perthshire, Scotland]
Description
Two manuscript copies of a 'Plan of the lands of Quigs and Balhalldies with the muirs and hills thereunto belonging' surveyed and drawn in 1736 by Robert Ogilvie. It is drawn in ink with black wash for the relief. One manuscript appears to be a rough draft as it has several omissions and the writing is untidy and includes a spelling error crossed out in the title. The final fair copy includes standing stones which are not on the first draft. The plan shows the boundaries of the properties and gives the acreage in a marginal note. The lands of Quigs were 948 acres and Balhalldies 541 acres. There is little enclosure but a head dyke is shown between the properties.
Work Record ID
0042504
Subject Place
[Ardoch, Perthshire, Scotland]
Description
Two manuscript copies of a 'Plan of the lands of Quigs and Balhalldies with the muirs and hills thereunto belonging' surveyed and drawn in 1736 by Robert Ogilvie. It is drawn in ink with black wash for the relief. One manuscript appears to be a rough draft as it has several omissions and the writing is untidy and includes a spelling error crossed out in the title. The final fair copy includes standing stones which are not on the first draft. The plan shows the boundaries of the properties and gives the acreage in a marginal note. The lands of Quigs were 948 acres and Balhalldies 541 acres. There is little enclosure but a head dyke is shown between the properties.
Work Record ID
0042504
Subject Place
[Ardoch, Perthshire, Scotland]
Description
Two manuscript copies of a 'Plan of the lands of Quigs and Balhalldies with the muirs and hills thereunto belonging' surveyed and drawn in 1736 by Robert Ogilvie. It is drawn in ink with black wash for the relief. One manuscript appears to be a rough draft as it has several omissions and the writing is untidy and includes a spelling error crossed out in the title. The final fair copy includes standing stones which are not on the first draft. The plan shows the boundaries of the properties and gives the acreage in a marginal note. The lands of Quigs were 948 acres and Balhalldies 541 acres. There is little enclosure but a head dyke is shown between the properties.
Work Record ID
0042504
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0042869
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0042869
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0042831
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0043939
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
Also known as the 'Epitome theatri Orteliani'. The maps of Ortelius's Theatrum were redrawn by Ortelius's collaborator, Philip Galle, and issued with text in rhyme by the translator of the Dutch 'Theatrum', Pieter Heyns. Galle and Christoffel Plantin first published the 'Epitome' in 1577. Like the 'Theatrum' it was immensely popular and was translated in prose form into French (1579), Latin (1585), Italian (1593), English (1603), and German (1604). Various printing houses continued production of the 'Epitome' until 1724.
Work Record ID
0042161
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
Also known as the 'Epitome theatri Orteliani'. The maps of Ortelius's Theatrum were redrawn by Ortelius's collaborator, Philip Galle, and issued with text in rhyme by the translator of the Dutch 'Theatrum', Pieter Heyns. Galle and Christoffel Plantin first published the 'Epitome' in 1577. Like the 'Theatrum' it was immensely popular and was translated in prose form into French (1579), Latin (1585), Italian (1593), English (1603), and German (1604). Various printing houses continued production of the 'Epitome' until 1724.
Work Record ID
0042161
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
A colourful map entitled 'Scotiae Tabula' by the Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius. He effectively invented the regular atlas in 1570 with his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', and with this map in the 1573 edition he set a new standard for cartographers of Scotland. Based, in part at least, on Mercator's 1564 map of the British Isles, this map covers the entire country except for Shetland. The outline of Scotland, with west at the top, is more exact than in previous maps; additionally, the islands are more recognisable in relation to each other, and there is greater detail, such as along the Firth of Clyde. This same map appears in further editions of the 'Theatrum' until 1612, well after Ortelius's death in 1598.
Work Record ID
0042147
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
A colourful map entitled 'Scotiae Tabula' by the Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius. He effectively invented the regular atlas in 1570 with his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', and with this map in the 1573 edition he set a new standard for cartographers of Scotland. Based, in part at least, on Mercator's 1564 map of the British Isles, this map covers the entire country except for Shetland. The outline of Scotland, with west at the top, is more exact than in previous maps; additionally, the islands are more recognisable in relation to each other, and there is greater detail, such as along the Firth of Clyde. This same map appears in further editions of the 'Theatrum' until 1612, well after Ortelius's death in 1598.
Work Record ID
0042147
Subject Place
[Scotland, Shetland]
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Work Record ID
0042586
Subject Place
[Fort William, Fort William Area, Scotland]
Subject Category
[Board of Ordnance, Maps, Military]
Work Record ID
0043512
Subject Place
[Castle Stewart, Croy, Culloden House, Daviot & Dunlichty, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland]
Subject Category
[Battlefields, Board of Ordnance]
Description
This map shows the array of both forces before the battle of Culloden Moor, on 16 Aril 1746, when the Duke of Cumberland defeated the retreating army of Charles Edward Stuart. As well as the disposition of the opposing troops in this battle, this plan shows Culloden House, Castle Stewart, the River Nairn, the Moray Firth, and the road to Nairn, as well as the town of Inverness, with the castle indicated, the River Ness and the road to Fort Augustus.
Work Record ID
0043288
Subject Place
[Castle Stewart, Croy, Culloden House, Daviot & Dunlichty, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland]
Subject Category
[Battlefields, Board of Ordnance]
Description
This map shows the array of both forces before the battle of Culloden Moor, on 16 Aril 1746, when the Duke of Cumberland defeated the retreating army of Charles Edward Stuart. As well as the disposition of the opposing troops in this battle, this plan shows Culloden House, Castle Stewart, the River Nairn, the Moray Firth, and the road to Nairn, as well as the town of Inverness, with the castle indicated, the River Ness and the road to Fort Augustus.
Work Record ID
0043288
Subject Place
[Mull, Island of, Scotland]
Work Record ID
0043571
Subject Place
[Fort William, Scotland]
Subject Category
[Board of Ordnance, Maps, Military]
Work Record ID
0043073
Subject Place
[Fort William, Scotland]
Subject Category
[Board of Ordnance, Maps, Military]
Work Record ID
0043072
Subject Place
[Fort William, Scotland]
Subject Category
[Board of Ordnance, Maps, Military]
Description
This sheet is undated and unsigned, but the 'Board of Ordnance Register of Plans 1700-1800' notes it as from Louis Petit, 1712, and it is part of the same set as the plans at shelfmarks MS.1646.Z.02/25a and MS.1646.Z.02/25b. The same barracks building at Fort William is shown on Dugal Campbell's plan of July 1744, at shelfmark MS.1646.Z.02/28a.
Work Record ID
0043092
Subject Place
[Perth, Scotland, St Johnston's Citadel]
Subject Category
[Board of Ordnance, Maps, Military]
Description
This map of Perth shows the defensive fortifications thrown up by the armies of James Francis Edward Stuart, after their capture of the town early in the 1715 rising. It also show the seventeenth century Cromwellian citadel. The map was done by Louis Petit, after the failure of the rising, late in 1715, and the recapture of Perth by government forces. There is another map of these fortifications of the same date, by one of Petit's team, Capt. William Horneck, at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/02a (copies at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.03/02b and MS.1647.Z.03/02c). As a result of the capture of the town, Petit proposed the building of a new fort, which was never taken up (plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/01a, copy at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/01b).
Work Record ID
0043210
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