Stuart, Robert

Old houses in the Gallowgate and High Street, the Gorbals baronial hall and the Duke's Lodgings survive in these views of a ...

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Old houses in the Gallowgate and High Street, the Gorbals baronial hall and the Duke's Lodgings survive in these views of a Glasgow that was already disappearing. They illustrate Views and Notices of Glasgow in Former Times, the book for which Robert Stuart (1812–1848) wrote the text and which he published with Allan and Ferguson and other booksellers; the drawings themselves are not his. Street prospects and small architectural details record the buildings around the Bridgegate, churches, the archbishop's palace and Hutcheson's Hospital supply institutional subjects, and the Broomielaw and Stockwell crossing lead down to the Clyde. Several views reconstruct earlier dates or preserve buildings already gone when the book appeared.

Old houses in the Gallowgate and High Street, the Gorbals baronial hall and the Duke's Lodgings survive in these views of a Glasgow that was already disappearing. They illustrate Views and Notices of Glasgow in Former Times, the book for which Robert Stuart (1812–1848) wrote the text and which he published with Allan and Ferguson and other booksellers; the drawings themselves are not his. Street prospects and small architectural details record the buildings around the Bridgegate, churches, the archbishop's palace and Hutcheson's Hospital supply institutional subjects, and the Broomielaw and Stockwell crossing lead down to the Clyde. Several views reconstruct earlier dates or preserve buildings already gone when the book appeared.

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