Detail of Walter Scott statue on the Scott Monument, Princes street, Edinburgh.
SC 466196
Description Detail of Walter Scott statue on the Scott Monument, Princes street, Edinburgh.
Catalogue Number SC 466196
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 5886
Scope and Content Detail of the statue of Sir Walter Scott, 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. The statue of Sir Walter Scott shows him seated, and wrapped in a shepherd's plaid with his favourite deerhound Maida at his side. The statue was cut by Sir John Steell in 1840-6 from a 30-ton block of marble. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was an Edinburgh lawyer as well as poet and novelist. His novels were very popular, and his output of prose prodigious - 23 books in 12 years. He was deeply patriotic and was one of the great creators of the romantic novel. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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