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View of the Scott Monument under construction.
SC 466197
Description View of the Scott Monument under construction.
Date c. 1845
Collection Collection of photographs by George Chrystal and Francis Maxwell Chrystal, photographers, Edinburgh,
Catalogue Number SC 466197
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 7287
Scope and Content 19th century photograph taken during the building 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. This photograph, looking east towards Calton Hill, was taken during building by the photographer, David Octavius Hill. It shows the four completed arches that were to form a canopy for Scott's statue, and the partially completed Gothic steeple. David Octavius Hill (1802-70), painter and photographer, was the first artist to apply the then new invention of photography to portraiture. His photographs of eminent Scottish figures are now part of a national photographic archive. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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