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Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland)

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: 55°56′55″N 3°12′03″W

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook No.43, August 1831 - August 1831

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 2: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/43
Scope and Contents This brown leather notebook contains Lyell's notes from London and Edinburgh, with lists including "luggage per steamboat" and packings lists, a draft of opening of a second volume, and a sketch of Edinburgh Castle hill with diagram of geological layers. Notes are written in pencil and ink, with many revisions. The front cover reads "August 1831, London, Edin[burgh]." The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from...
Dates: August 1831 - August 1831
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

No.V. [ie North View] of Edinburgh Castle, 13 May 1789

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/20(iii)
Scope and Contents

No.V. [ie North View] of Edinburgh Castle. Line engraving. 13 May 1789. Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791, Artist; Sparrow, Samuel, Engraver; Hooper, S. (Samuel), Publisher.

Publisher statement: Publish'd … by S. Hooper.

Published in: Grose, Antiquities of Scotland, vol. I (1789).

Dates: 13 May 1789
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Papers of Marjorie Jean Oswald Kennedy

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1290
Scope and Contents Mounted photograph of Highland scene Packet of photographs c1970s inc. Edinburgh Castle Folder "Upwards of a Century" Family photographs Students taking exam, location unidentified Album of South African photographs: "Mr R Kennedy, with best wishes from T Wilson Cairncross, Cape Town, South Africa, 14 Oct 1896" ...
Dates: 19th-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Prospect of Edinburgh Castle from the South East, c.1740

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/37
Scope and Contents

Prospect of Edinburgh Castle from the South East. Etching. c.1740. Elphinstone, John, 1706-1753, Artist; Parr, Nathaniel, -1751, Etcher; Phinn, Thomas, Publisher.

Published in: Twelve Perspective Views of the Principal Buildings in Edinburgh.

Note: Published in Hugo Arnot, History of Edinburgh (1779), p. 290-91.

Dates: c.1740
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Rock and Castle of Edinburgh, 1 May 1805

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/23(ii)
Scope and Contents

Rock and Castle of Edinburgh. Line engraving. 1 May 1805. Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, Artist; Vernor and Hood, Publisher.

Publisher statement: London: Publish'd by Vernor & Hood, Poultry.

Published in: Forsyth, Beauties of Scotland, vol. I (1805), fp. 7.

Dates: 1 May 1805
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Royal Institution and Castle from Princes Street, undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/12(i)
Scope and Contents

Royal Institution and Castle from Princes Street. Line engraving. Undated. Unknown creator.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

[Royal Institution and Edinburgh Castle], 1828

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/12(ii)
Scope and Contents

[Royal Institution and Edinburgh Castle]. Line engraving. 1828. Archibald, William, Engraver; Archibald Constable & Co., Publisher; Hurst, Chance and Co., Publisher.

Published in: The General Register for 1827. Constable's Miscellany, vol. XXII (1828).

Dates: 1828
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

S.E. View of Edinburgh Castle, 18 February 1789

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/40(i)
Scope and Contents

S.E. View of Edinburgh Castle. Line engraving. 18 February 1789. Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791, Artist; Sparrow, Samuel, Engraver; Hooper, S. (Samuel), Publisher.

Publisher statement: Publish'd … by S. Hooper.

Published in: Grose, Antiquities of Scotland, vol. I (1789).

Dates: 18 February 1789
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

South View of Edinburgh, 1823

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/41
Scope and Contents

South View of Edinburgh. Lithograph. 1823. Baynes, Thomas Mann, 1794-1854, Artist; Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, Lithographer; Walther, D., Publisher.

Publisher statement: D Walther, Brydges Street, Covent Garden.

Published in: Baynes, Twenty Views of the City and Environs of Edinburgh (1823).

Dates: 1823
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

St. Cuthbert's, February 1839

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/20(ii)
Scope and Contents St. Cuthbert's. Line engraving. February 1839. Roberts, David, 1796-1864, Artist; Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, Engraver; Skene, James, 1775-1864, Artist; Chapman and Hall, Publisher.Publisher statement: London, Published … by Chapman & Hall, 86, Strand.Published in: W. Finden, Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels (1834), vol. 2.Note: Drawn by D. Roberts, from a sketch by J. Skene. Below, at left: 'Fortunes of Nigel'. Illustrating Scott...
Dates: February 1839
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh