Detail of pinnacles
SC 466195
Description Detail of pinnacles
Catalogue Number SC 466195
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 5888
Scope and Content Detail of the Scott Monument, East Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh The Scott Monument, designed by George Meikle Kemp, was completed in 1844 at a cost of £16,000. It commemorates Sir Walter Scott, Edinburgh's greatest publicist and author of the Waverley Novels, who died at Abbotsford in 1832. Above the four arches and diagonal buttresses which form a canopy for Scott's statue are four prominent statues of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Prince Charles Edward Stewart or Bonnie Prince Charlie) the Lady of the Lake, Meg Merrilees and the Last Minstrel. The glass window is by Ballantine. In the niches of the monument are 64 statues of famous characters in history or from Scott's Waverley novels, carved by a number of Edinburgh sculptors including Alexander Handyside Ritchie, William Birnie Rhind, and Mrs David Octavius Hill. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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