AmblingAlp
Edinburgh College of Art
Architecture
This is a collection of my own photography, some reblogs and of things that interest me.
There are some strange and marvellous things out there in the Tumblrsphere.
#Classical
#new york
#met
#the met
#Metropolitan Museum
#greek
#roman
#sculpture
#art
#history
#historic
#ancient
#america
#museum
Duality of place.
Shop fronts at Portobello.
Smiths Place House, Leith.
Edinburgh Doors Open day. Trinity House, Leith.
#lasswade
#Midlothian
#edinburgh
#scotland
#historic house
#historic
#georgian
#country house
#ruin
#birds
#winter
The quiet and the still.
Photo’s taken by Barry Milne, arranged by me.
The view and the glass.
#country house
#countryhouse
#delapidated
#diptic
#dipticapp
#lasswade
#mavisbank
#midlothian
#ruin
#Scotland
#Lothians
#Sun Flare
#Country Seat
#Adam
#Historic
This is Mavisbank as it appeared in William Adam’s Vitruvius Scoticus. The drawings clearly illustrate the Palladian form of the building. The elevation was not erected exactly as shown.
The lower image is By architect Robert Hurd, and was a survey drawing executed in the 1950s while he oversaw the demolition of subsequent alterations, in an attempt to recreate the building’s 18th century appearance.
These are more pictures of Mavisbank, I think this may be a reoccurring topic on my tumblr. It’s a building with a very complex history, and I have amassed rather a lot of material on its history and development from the 1720s through to present day.
These pictures are taken from a print of an original painting I believe, and shows the building in the mid to late 1700s from across the Esk Valley, similar to the view I described in my earlier post. The Pentlants clearly visible in the background.
