Exchange Buildings, Leith

Category

Library Item

Item no

18632

Title

Exchange Buildings, Leith

Artist / maker

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Engraver

Higham, T

Date

1829

Size

10.3 x 15.0 cm

Type

Engraving

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image comes from 'Modern Athens', a book of engravings based on drawings by Thomas Shepherd published in 1829. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Edinburgh was growing rapidly. The popular neoclassical architectural style of the time was inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and Edinburgh was nicknamed 'Athens of the North'. Shepherd's engravings celebrate the beauty of Edinburgh and show many notable buildings and streets both within the city, and further afield.

The Exchange Buildings on Constitution Street were built in 1809-10 by Thomas Brown. The buildings incorporate the Assembly Rooms built in 1783 to the back.

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