Field Visit
Date 12 February 2001
Event ID 612572
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/612572
Portrait bust (facing left) of Prince Albert, in relief, in a roundel surrounded by foliage in a segmental pediment. At the top of the pediment is a shield on which is a lion rampant. The shield is surmounted by a castle and is flanked by thistles. Seated on either side of the pediment is a female figure: a woman with a bust of a girl (on the left) [Sculpture]; a woman holding a book in her left hand (on the right) [Poetry]. Each of the doorway pilasters is also carved with foliage.
The building was erected for the Scottish Heritages Company and completed in the spring of 1877. The company provided a hall within the building, to be used as a picture gallery. This was called the 'Albert Institute of the Fine Arts.'
[At the winter exhibition, opened on 28 November 1877, 'two graceful figures symbolical of "Painting" and "Sculpture" by Mrs D. O. Hill' (1) were shown amongst the sculpture in the gallery.]
Inscriptions : None
Signatures : None visible
Design period : 1876 - 1877
Year of unveiling : 1877
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0193)