Vegetable and fish market, from the 'Rainbow' Gallery

Category

Library Item

Item no

18689

Title

Vegetable and fish market, from the 'Rainbow' Gallery, Edinburgh

Description

Traders are gathered to sell vegetables and fish below the arches of North Bridge. The market is a large open space where many people are gathered, some stand next to baskets of produce, and horses and carts are parked in the space. At the side are some enclosed stalls. The bridge crosses over into the Old Town of Edinburgh which is full of tall tenement buildings with smoke coming out of the chimneys. Arthur's Seat is in the background. Many people and horses are crossing over the bridge.

Artist / maker

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Engraver

Stalker, E

Date

1829

Size

10.4 x 15.8 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.

This is the modern site of Waverley train station.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Arches

Business > Service industry > Markets

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Edinburgh areas > Princes Street

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Stone bridges

Transport > Land > Horse and carts

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