East side of St Andrew Square

Category

Library Item

Item no

18655

Title

East side of St Andrew Square

Description

Horses, carts and pedestrians make their way along part of St Andrew Square. The street is lined with a row of buildings with a gap in between two of them. A bookseller and stationer's shop is housed on the ground floor of one of the buildings.

Artist / maker

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Engraver

Johnstone, J

Date

1829

Size

9.9 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.

St Andrew Square is located at the east end of George Street. It is home to the head office of the Royal Bank of Scotland. The Melville Monument, built in memory of Henry Dundas, stands in its centre. Edinburgh's main bus terminus is located on its east side. Many of the buildings depicted in this image were used by banks.

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