A summer-house in regent murray's garden, where the union of the two kingdons was signed.
Engraver: Samuel Lacey (1786-1859).
Artist: after an original study from Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1793-1864).
Description: A charming antique print of the garden of the Canongate house.
Size: 13,2x20,1 cms.
Condition: good.

Scope and Content 19th-century drawing of the summerhouse in garden of Moray House, Canongate, Edinburgh Moray House was built for Mary, Dowager Countess of Home in 1618 and given to her daughter, Countess of Moray, in 1643. It was visited by Charles I, and Cromwell lived here on two occasions. It is now a teachers' training college. The summerhouse in a secluded spot in the garden, was where, in 1707, traditionally, the signing of the Treaty of Union was partly carried out. It was completed in a High Street cellar while the cries of the 'exasperated mob rang in the streets'. In 1707 the Lord High Chancellor, the Earl of Seafield, lived at Moray House. He was one of the Commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Union in which the Kingdoms of Scotland and England were incorporated in a United Kingdom of Great Britain