Following the launch of trove.scot in February 2025 we are now planning the retiral of some of our webservices. Canmore will be switched off on 24th June 2025. Information about the closure can be found on the HES website: Retiral of HES web services | Historic Environment Scotland
Interior-general view of exhibition hall and gallery
SC 695901
Description Interior-general view of exhibition hall and gallery
Date c. 1900
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 695901
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 20727/7
Scope and Content Hill Square Extension Museum (now the Jules Thorn Museum), Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeons' Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Surgeons' Hall was designed in 1829-32 by William Henry Playfair for the Royal College of Surgeons. The building was extended in 1908-9 by the architect, Balfour Paul, to incorporate a new museum hall which was photographed c.1909 by Harry Bedford Lemere. The hall has a gallery lined with piers with Ionic capitals, echoing Playfair's Classical design for the building's original anatomy hall. The display cases are designed to house a surgical collection illustrating Edinburgh's rich medical history. Exhibits include a wallet made from the skin of the notorious murderer, William Burke (1792-1829), and items belonging to famous surgeons such as the pioneer of obstetric surgery, James Young Simpson (1811-70). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/695901
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © Courtesy of HES (Bedford Lemere and Company Collection)
Licence Type: Educational
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
