View from the Statue of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch

Category

Library Item

Item no

14527

Title

View from the statue of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2008

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

A statue of David Hume, the eighteenth century Scottish philosopher, economist and historian, stands outside the High Court of Justiciary on the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh. The statue is neo-classical in style. It was made by the sculptor Alexander Stoddart and unveiled in 1997.

A statue of Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th Duke of Queensberry stands in Parliament Square in Edinburgh. This imposing bronze is by J. Edgar Boehm and was completed in 1888. Bronze panels surrounding the pedestal, executed by artists including George Clark Stanton, illustrate events from the lives of the Duke and his family.

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