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Royal Bank, St Andrew Square
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1829, Engraving
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18659
Title
Royal Bank, St Andrew Square
Description
The Royal Bank of Scotland.
Artist / maker
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
Engraver
Watkins, W
Date
1829
Size
9.6 x 15.0 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 Royal Bank of Scotland premises at 35 St Andrew Square were designed by Sir William Chambers and built in 1771 as a house for Sir Lawrence Dundas. James Craig had intended the site to be occupied by a church, mirroring the one on the west side of Charlotte Square, but Dundas foiled these plans. The building was subsequently occupied by the Excise Office from 1794 and the Royal Bank of Scotland from 1825.
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