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Tantallon Castle

Artist: Grose, Francis · 1731-1791

Tantallon Castle

The two curtain walls are inscribd respectively “too short 1/8” and “too long 1/8” which suggests that grose was using some specific measuring…

The two curtain walls are inscribd respectively “too short 1/8” and “too long 1/8” which suggests that grose was using some specific measuring device as a trained military draughtsman would do in taking topographical delineations at this period.

This appears to be the original drawing reproduced as a plate facing page 83 in Volume 1 of Grose’s the Antiquities of Scotland (2nd ed,1797), titled as Tantalllon Castle Pl.II.