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New Merchant Maiden Hospital, Lauriston Lane
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1829, Engraving
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Title
New Merchant Maiden Hospital, Lauriston Lane, Edinburgh
Description
The New Merchant Maiden Hospital is a large building with a vestible supported by four large pillars. There is a garden in front of the house with a large lawn and shrubbery and trees. A group of girls are gathered on the lawn.
Artist / maker
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
Engraver
Henshall, J
Date
1829
Size
10.0 x 14.8 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 Merchant Maiden Hospital was founded by Mary Erskine in 1694 to educate destitute daughters of merchants in Edinburgh. The school was initially located on the Cowgate, however in moved on a number of occasions throughout its history. In 1818 it moved to the building depicted in this engraving at Lauriston Lane, before moving to Queen Street in 1870.
The School is now a fee-paying girls school located in Ravelston known as Mary Erskine's.
The building in Lauriston Lane was used by George Watson's Boy's College between 1870 and 1933. In 1933 it was purchased by the Royal Infirmary and demolished to make way for the Simpson Maternity Pavilion and Florence Nightingale Nurse's Home. The Royal Infirmary has since moved to Little France in the South East of Edinburgh, and this area has been redeveloped into new apartments and commercial properties known as the Quartermile.
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