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Interior-general view of exhibition hall from gallery level
BL 20727/6
Description Interior-general view of exhibition hall from gallery level
Date c. 1900
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 20727/6
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Hill Square Extension Museum (now the Jules Thorn Museum), Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeons' Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Surgeons' Hall, designed in 1829-32 by William Henry Playfair for the Royal College of Surgeons, was extended in 1908-9 by the architect, Balfour Paul, to include a new museum hall. The hall was photographed c.1909 by Harry Bedford Lemere. The hall has a glass-coffered ceiling, and a gallery lined with piers with Ionic capitals. Its design is a blend of Paul's flowery style and the rather severe Classical style used by Playfair in his design of the college's original anatomy museum. The hall was designed to house a surgical collection illustrating Edinburgh's medical history, and the development of surgery from 1505. The exhibits, sometimes macabre, include a pocketbook made from the skin of the murderer, William Burke (1792-1829). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 55
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/329375
Attribution: © Courtesy of HES. (Bedford Lemere and Company Collection).
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