Calton Hill and Rock House

Category

Library Item

Item no

15342

Title

Calton Hill and Rock House

Description

The monuments of Calton Hill, Edinburgh can be seen above a row of house ending in Rock House. Below is Waterloo Place and the Calton Cemetry.

Artist / maker

Inglis, Alexander Adam

Date

1898

Size

21 x 28.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Rock House is situated immediately below Calton Hill, on a short street also called Calton Hill which runs north-west from Waterloo Place. It has been the home and commercial premises of several of the most important Scottish photographers. It was perhaps most famously inhabited by D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson who used the garden as a location for many of their portraits. The house was subsequently occupied by John and Thomas Annan, Archibald Burns, and Alexander Adam and Francis Caird Inglis. The house is currently a private residence.

Calton Hill is situated at the east end of Princes Street in Edinburgh. It rises to a height of 108 metres and is another of the city's hills created by volcanic activity. Several monuments stand on the hill. Most prominent amongst these are the Nelson Monument, built in the shape of a telescope, and the unfinished National Monument, modelled on the Parthenon in Athens.

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