New town hall, Leith

Category

Library Item

Item no

18636

Title

New town hall, Leith, Edinburgh

Description

Leith Town Hall in Leith, Edinburgh has a frontage with ionic pillars on the Constitution Street side and a porch with four doric columns on the Charlotte Street side. Next to the Town Hall is a church which is mostly obscured by a tree. Various people are gathered on the pavement including a group of men wearing top hats, and two soldiers in highland dress. On the road is a man pushing a barrel and another man riding on horseback.

Artist / maker

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Engraver

Henshall, J

Date

1829

Size

9.4 x 15.2 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.

Leith Town Hall on the corner of Constitution Street and Queen Charlotte Street was designed by R & R Dickson and built 1827-28 Leith Police Station is now located in the former town hall building.

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