File:Portrait of James Craig by David Allan.jpg

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English:  :
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.
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Source scanned from The Story Of Scotland, First Press and Scottish Daily Record Group, 1999-2000
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David Allan  (1744–1796)  wikidata:Q590576
 
David Allan
Alternative names
David Allen; Allan of Edinbro'; Allan David; Allan; D. Allan; Allen
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 13 February 1744 Edit this at Wikidata 6 August 1796 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Alloa Edit this at Wikidata Edinburgh Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1762 - 1796
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Scotland, Rome, London
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creator QS:P170,Q590576

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