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Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1829, Engraving
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18684
Title
Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
Description
The Theatre Royal is a two storey building with three statues on the top. On the ground floor there is a canopy supported by stone pillars. People are gathered outside the theatre, a horse drawn carriage travels along the road, and a man on horseback.
Artist / maker
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
Engraver
Wallis, W
Date
1829
Size
10.2 x 14.9 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.
Edinburgh's Theatre Royal was originally located at the junction of North Bridge and Waterloo Place in Shakespeare Square, no longer extant. After the theatre's demolition in 1859 its patent was transferred to a theatre situated next to St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral at the junction of Broughton Street, York Place, Leith Street and Leith Walk. The new Theatre Royal suffered several fires in the second half of the 19th century. The building has since been demolished.
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