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data:
actNote:
- intro: lang
lang: eng
text: English
- authority: sswd
intro: acti
lang: ger
text: 'Personen zu Architektur, Bautechnik (31.3p)'
uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#31.3p
- authority: gnd
intro: acti
lang: ger
text: Architekt
uri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4002844-6
bioDates:
- end: 1795
lang: fre
start: 1744
text: 1744-1795
- end: 1795
lang: ger
start: 1744
text: 1744-1795
- lang: eng
text: d. 1743
extDataset:
- code: VIAF
note:
- lang: eng
text: Clustered authority record
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typeOfResource: same
- code: DNBI
note:
- lang: eng
text: Authority record
searchTerm: http://d-nb.info/gnd/119465418
typeOfResource: same
- code: WDAT
note:
- lang: eng
text: Wikidata description set
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typeOfResource: same
- code: PARB
note:
- lang: eng
text: Authority record
searchTerm: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb135144868
typeOfResource: orig
- code: LINK
note:
- lang: und
text: ' :
- 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.
'
rights: '
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'
searchTerm: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/File:Portrait of James Craig by David Allan.jpg
typeOfResource: dpct
external:
- auth: ESTC
country: GB
id: tb015643
- auth: BNF
catRules: AFNOR Z 44-061
country: FR
date: 19991011
id: FRBNF135144869
- auth: GND
country: DE
date: 20160331
id: 119465418
- auth: ESTC
country: GB
id: tb048477
foundIn:
- ESTC/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'
generalNote:
- lang: fre
text: Architecte écossais
- lang: fre
text: 'Source(s) consultée(s) en vain: BN APP (en ligne), 1999-10-11'
- lang: fre
text: "Source(s) consultée(s) en vain: Encyclopédie de l'art, 1991"
- lang: ger
text: 'Architekt, Städteplaner, Grossbritannien'
- lang: ger
text: Schott. Architekt
geoNote:
- intro: nati
lang: eng
text: British
- authority: iso3166
intro: geon
lang: und
text: GB
- intro: geon
lang: ger
text: Großbritannien
heading:
- part:
- entry: Craig
- firstname: James
usedBy:
- BNF
- ESTC(AACR2)
- part:
- entry: Craig
- firstname: James
usedBy:
- BNF
- part:
- entry: Craig
- firstname: James
usedBy:
- GyFmDB
- part:
- entry: Craig
- firstname: James
usedBy:
- ESTC(AACR2)
imprintSource:
- title: 'His Plan for a general bridewell, 1780 tp=Ja. Craig, architect'
- title: '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'
location:
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name:
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- entry: Craig
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- addition: James
typeOfName: varn
- part:
- entry: Craig
- firstname: James
typeOfName: varn
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- cnp01367813
- cnp00021714
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meta:
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- cnp00053498
- cnp00053801
history:
- timestamp: 2004-09-22T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2012-02-29T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2013-02-22T19:28:57Z
- timestamp: 2013-02-22T19:29:27Z
- timestamp: 2016-05-20T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2005-02-26T06:53:25Z
- timestamp: 2007-02-02T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2009-06-10T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2009-10-28T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2018-12-12T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2019-05-03T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2019-08-21T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2019-09-25T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2020-05-27T12:00:00Z
- timestamp: 2020-09-20T09:00:41Z
- timestamp: 2024-02-08T12:00:00Z
remark:
- BLAISE-No. current:12525135 old:12525135 file:BEIG
status: n