The Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750

Louisa Humm; John Lowrey; Aonghus MacKechnie

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

The Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750

Louisa Humm , John Lowrey and Aonghus MacKechnie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474455282

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A rich, revisionist overview of Scotland’s early classical architecture

Steps decisively away from the ‘Scottish castle’ genre of architecture
Contextualises the work of Scotland’s first well-documented grouping of major architects – including Sir William Bruce, Mr James Smith, James Gibbs and the Adam dynasty
Documents the architectural developments of a transformational period in Scottish history
Beautifully illustrated throughout with 300 colour illustrations

This architectural survey covers one of Scotland’s most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Interposed between the decline of ‘the Scottish castle’ and its revival as Scotch Baronial architecture, the contributors consider both private and public/civic architecture. They showcase the architectural reflections of a Scotland finding its new elites by providing new research, analysing paradigms such as Holyrood and Hamilton Palace, as well as external reference points such as Paris tenements, Roman precedents and English parallels. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
I Setting the Scene
Introduction Aonghus MacKechnie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Political Economy and the Shaping of Early Modern Scotland Allan I. Macinnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
II Classicism and the Castle
2 The Paired Columned Entrance of Holyroodhouse as a Solomonic Signifier Ian Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3 Exiting Europe? The Royal Works in the Age of 1689 Revolution and 1707 Union Aonghus MacKechnie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4 Sir William Bruce: Classicism and the Castle John Lowrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5 A Classic Looks at the Gothic: Sir John Clerk, Ruins and Romance Iain Gordon Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
III The Business of Building, Trades, Materials and Pattern Books
6 Scottish Ironwork, 1670–1730 Ali Davey and Aonghus MacKechnie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7 Thomas Albourn, William Bruce’s Plasterer: ‘An Englishman and the Best Plaisterer that was ever yet in Scotland’ William Napier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
8 The Roof Structure of George Heriot’s Hospital Chapel and Roof Design in Scotland During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Anna Serafini and Cristina González-Longo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
9 Colen Campbell, James Gibbs and Sir John Vanbrugh: Rethinking the Origins of the British Architectural Plate Book James Legard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
IV The Country House
10 The Architectural Innovations of Mr James Smith of Whitehill (c. 1645–1731) within the European Context Cristina González-Longo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
11 From England to Scotland in 1701: the Duchess of Buccleuch returns to Dalkeith Palace Sally Jeffery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12 Women Patrons and Designers in Early Eighteenthcentury Scotland: Lady Panmure and Lady Nairne Clarisse Godard Desmarest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
13 Architectural Works by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun Rory Lamb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
14 Mannerism in the Work of John Douglas in Eighteenthcentury Scotland Dimitris Theodossopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
V Gardens
15 ‘The Inexpressible Need of Inclosing and Planting’: Country House Policies in Scotland, 1660–1750 Christopher Dingwall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
16 The Terraced Garden in Scotland in the Seventeenth Century Marilyn Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
17 Alexander Edward’s European Tour, 1701–2 John Lowrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
18 William Adam and Formal Landscape Design in Scotland, 1720–45 Louisa Humm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
19 William Adam and Antiquity: an Arcadian retreat at Arniston? Nick Haynes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
VI Urban Architecture
20 Town Housing and Planning: Alexander McGill, James Gibbs and Allan Dreghorn in Early Georgian Glasgow Anthony Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
21 Interpretation of European Classicism: Three Eighteenth-century University Libraries Deborah Mays Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
22 Edinburgh and Venice: Comparing the Evolution in Communal Living in Geographically Challenged Mercantile Communities Giovanna Guidicini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	442
23 Living Horizontally: the Origin of the Tenement in Paris and Edinburgh Clarisse Godard Desmarest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
24 William Adam’s Public Buildings David W. Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
VII Conclusion
25 Was Scotland a ‘Narrow Place’? Ranald MacInnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	530
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 672
Illustrations
- Other: 300 colour illustrations
Keywords: Scottish Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474455282