Allan Ramsay Monument

Category

Library Item

Item no

26811

Title

Allan Ramsay Monument, West Princes Street Gardens

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2012

Type

Digital image

The ten-foot high Carrara marble statue by Sir John Steell shows Allan Ramsay wearing a night-cap rather than a wig, an allusion to the fact he had been a wig-maker as a young man. The ornate Binny sandstone plinth is by David Bryce R.S.A. It was originally to be sited in Ramsay Garden where the poet lived in Goose Pie House (from its unusual eight-sided shape) off the Royal Mile.

Allan Ramsay (1685 -1758) opened Britain's first circulating library on the Royal Mile, wrote 'The Gentle Shepherd' and was involved in the revival of Scots vernacular poetry.

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Architecture > Monuments > Memorial monuments

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Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

(55°57′6″N, 3°11′50″W)

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