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The Register Office, Princes Street
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1829, Engraving
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Title
The Register Office, Princes Street
Description
Register Office at the east end of Princes Street, Edinburgh is a grand building, with twin clock towers, and a facade with corinthian columns in its centre. There is a large dome on top of the building. The entrance to Register House is set back from the pavement with a wall. Princes Street is busy with people, and an empty horse and cart waits on the road.
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Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
Engraver
McClatchie, A
Date
1829
Size
10.7 x 15.3 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.
Register House is situated at the east end of Princes Street in Edinburgh. It was designed by Robert Adam as a repository for Scotland's public records. Building work began in 1774 and three sides of the quadrangle were completed by the first years of the 19th century. The north side of the quadrangle was added by Robert Reid in the 1820s and early 1830s. A statue of the Duke of Wellington was erected in front of the building in 1852.
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