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Craig, James

Record IDcnp00556464
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp00556464
Biographical Data1744 - 1795
Last Edit2024-02-08

General Note

Architecte écossais
Source(s) consultée(s) en vain: BN APP (en ligne), 1999-10-11
Source(s) consultée(s) en vain: Encyclopédie de l'art, 1991
Architekt, Städteplaner, Grossbritannien
Schott. Architekt

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Further Biographical Data1744-1795
1744-1795
d. 1743
Primary Language(s)English
ActivityPersonen zu Architektur, Bautechnik (31.3p) (sswd)
Architekt (gnd)
Geographic NoteGB (iso3166)
Großbritannien
NationalityBritish

Names

HeadingCraig, James
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; British Library: English Short Title Catalogue - AACR2 Heading, London (United Kingdom)
Craig, James
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Craig, James
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Craig, James
used in: British Library: English Short Title Catalogue - AACR2 Heading, London (United Kingdom)
Variant NameCraig, J., James
Craig, James

Sources

Found inESTC/NA/85.9.11 revised by BL. — DNB=d. 1795. — Colvin=1744.10.31-1795.6.23. — Not found in GK. — Internet://opac97.bl.uk, 1999-10-11 (Bibliothèque nationale, Grande-Bretagne). — LoC. — WS=of Dalnair and Costerton, d. 1743
Imprint SourcesHis Plan for a general bridewell, 1780 tp=Ja. Craig, architect
T209306: Unto the right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Sir Hew Hamilton of Bargainie, Hew Dalrymple of Drummore, Esquire, one of your Lordships [sic] number, and Mr. James Craig writer to the Signet, factor for the said Sir Hew Hamilton, 1739
depiction of ...
 :
August, around what PUBLIC WORKS I see
Lo! Stately streets, Lo! Squares that court the breeze
See! Long canals and deepened rivers join
Each part with each, and with the encircling Main
The whole enlivened Isle.
(lines from James Thomson's poem 'Liberty' engraved on Craig's original plan for Edinburgh's New Town)
Craig's original, imaginative but impractical conception was for the street plan to resemble the Union Flag with diagonal streets radiating from the centre. This was subsequently modified in favour of three parallel main streets running in a straight line between terminating squares. In the painting he is seen with a further modification which envisaged a circus as the central focus, but this was not adopted. The plan for a canal skirted by promenades in place of the drained valley of the Nor Loch was abandoned.

[David Allan / scanned from The Story Of Scotland, First Press and Scottish Daily Record Group, 1999-2000 -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait of James Craig by David Allan.jpg]

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