Field Visit

Date 15 June 2000

Event ID 612526

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/612526

Public Monuments and Sculpture Association: Edinburgh

Standing figure of David Livingstone, book in outstretched right hand, long-handled axe in left, with lion skin behind him; on a stone pedestal.

David Livingstone, born Blantyre 1813, died in Africa while searching for the source of the Nile, 1873.

Inscriptions : On north-east side of pedestal:

LIVINGSTONE

Signatures : On north-west side of statue plinth :

AMELIA. R. HILL. Sc. / EDINBURGH. 1875.

On south-east side of statue plinth:

R. MASEFIELD & Co / Founders / LONDON

Design period : 1875 - 1876

Year of unveiling : 1876

Unveiling details : 15 August 1876

Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0170)