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The Canongate, Edinburgh, looking west
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1829, Engraving
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18647
Title
The Canongate, Edinburgh, looking west
Description
The Canongate is busy with people. Some ride on horses, others pull a horse and cart. Amongst the people are two women carrying, heavy bags, a man in highland costume, a man on horseback gesturing to someone on the street below, and a couple dressed in finery. Many of the tenement buildings contain shops on the ground floor. Street lamps are fastened on railings hanging from the walls of the building. Washing is hung out of some of the windows.
Artist / maker
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
Engraver
Tombleson, W
Date
1829
Size
10.2 x 15.9 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 Canongate is the section of Edinburgh's Royal Mile running from the junction with Jeffrey Street to a roundabout almost immediately outside Holyrood Palace.
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Shepherd's Modern Athens
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