Morton, active 1767, Plan of a Building for the Register Offices in Scotland, 1767
- Title:
Plan of a Building for the Register Offices in Scotland
- Date:
- 1767
- Medium:
- Engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 22 × 17 1/2 inches (55.9 × 44.5 cm), Plate: 16 3/4 × 15 1/8 inches (42.5 × 38.4 cm), Image: 12 1/8 × 11 3/4 inches (30.8 × 29.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower center: "PLAN of a BUILDING for the REGISTER OFFICES in SCOTLAND. | To the Rigt Honorable James Earl of MORTON Lord | Register of SCOTLAND and President of the Roal Society, | This Engraving from the Elegant Plan of IHs Lordship's contrivance is Inscribed by"; lettered, lower right: "His Lordship's | Most Obedient and | Devoted humble Servant | Robt. Baldwin, Archt. | R. Baldwin Sculpsit 1767."; lettered, lower center: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March ye 26th 1767."; lettered, lower left: "Morton Excogitavit 1762""
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.528
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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