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David Hume's Monument (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: 55°56'58.5"N 3°11'32.8"W

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

David Hume's Monument, January 1804

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/185(i)
Scope and Contents

David Hume's Monument. Etching. January 1804. Nattes, John Claude, 1765?-1822, Artist; Fittler, James, 1758-1835, Etcher; Miller, William, 1769-1844, Publisher.

Published in: Fittler and Nattes, Scotia Depicta (1804), tailpiece.

Note: Pencil inscription: 'Hume's Monument'.

Dates: January 1804
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Hume's Monument from Leith Wynd, 1 January 1819

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/187(i)
Scope and Contents

Hume's Monument from Leith Wynd. Line engraving. 1 January 1819. Storer, James, 1771-1853, Artist, Publisher; Storer, H. S. (Henry Sargant), 1795-1837, Engraver, Publisher; Archibald Constable & Co., Publisher.

Publisher statement: Drawn, Engd. & Pubd. By J. & H. S. Storer, Chapel Street, Pentonville.

Published in: Views in Edinburgh and its Vicinity (1820), vol. 2.

Dates: 1 January 1819
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Hume's Tomb on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh, 1789

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/97
Scope and Contents

Hume's Tomb on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Line engraving. 1789. Macpherson, Aeneas, Artist, Engraver.

Published in: Macpherson, Edina Delineata (1789).

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

Regent Bridge, New Jail, etc. from the West, 1817

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/171
Scope and Contents

Regent Bridge, New Jail, etc. from the West. Etching. 1817. Gibson, Patrick, 1782-1829, Artist, Etcher; Pillans, J., & Son, Publisher.

Published in: Select Views in Edinburgh (1818).

Note: Plate 1. Numbers keyed to book text. This item reproduced in Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh (1966), as fig. 42b. cf. Daniel Wilson Scrapbook [NMS] 105v(2).

Dates: 1817
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

The New Jail, from Calton Hill, 16 May 1829

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/174(i)
Scope and Contents

The New Jail, from Calton Hill. Line engraving. 16 May 1829. Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer. 1793-1864, Artist; Tombleson, William, 1795-, Engraver; Jones and Co. (London, England), Publisher.

Published in: T. H. Shepherd, Modern Athens! (1829).

Dates: 16 May 1829
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh