Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the first Story of Register Offices for Scotland. / Third Design / Bill Chamber / Principal Clerk / Under Clerk / Warrants of Decreets / Extractors Closet / Extractors Common Hall / Extractors Closet / Staircase / Court / Water Closet / Passage / Warrants of Register / Registration Office / Under Clerk / Principal Clerk / Hall / Principal Clerk / Under lerk / Passage / Registration Office / Warrants Registers / Extractors Closet / Passage / Extractors Common Hall / Extractors Closet / Warrants of Decreets / Under Clerk / Prinicpal Clerk / Teind (?) Office / Staircase / Court / Water Closet / Passage / Housekeepers Room / Horning Office / Sasine (?) Office / Passage / Justiciary / Justiciary / Sheriff Records / Sheriffs Writing Room / Sheriff Records / Admiralty Office / Admiralty Office / Passage / Signet Office / Signet Office / Porter's Room and some measurements given (verso) 8 / 8
Signed and dated
- 1772-79
datable to c1772-79
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (688 x 498)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 11
For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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