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Castlehill (Edinburgh, Scotland)

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: 55°56'56.5"N 3°11'47.0"W

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Castle Hill, 1 December 1838

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/1/30
Scope and Contents

Castle Hill. Line engraving. 1 December 1838. Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Artist; Scott, Robert, 1777-1841, Engraver; Watson, W. F., Publisher.

Publisher statement: Edinburgh: Published by W.F. Watson, 52 Princes Street.

Published in: Edinburgh and Mid-Lothian (1838).

Note: cf. Daniel Wilson Scrapbook [NMS] 19r(6).

Dates: 1 December 1838
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

[Edinburgh & the north lock with the bank on which the new town is built], c.1750

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/50
Scope and Contents

[Edinburgh & the north lock with the bank on which the new town is built]. Pen and ink with watercolour. c.1750. White, Adam, 1817-1879, Artist; Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, Artist.

Note: Pencil inscription: 'View from Castle Hill, about 1745. Original in King's Collection'. Copy [by Adam White?] of Sandby watercolour in BL: Maps K.Top.50.96.b., date c.1750. This item, Adam White's copy, is reproduced in Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh (1966), as fig. 4.

Dates: c.1750
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

[Edinburgh from Castle Esplanade], 1846

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/2(ii)
Scope and Contents

[Edinburgh from Castle Esplanade]. Wood engraving. 1846. Ewbank, John Wilson, 1799?-1847, Artist; Mason, Walter George, 1820-1866, Engraver; Cadell, Robert, 1788-1849, Publisher.

Published in: Walter Scott, Waverley Novels (Abbotsford Edition), vol. 10 (1846), Chronicles of the Canongate, p.347.

Dates: 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Edinburgh, from the King's Bastion, 1832

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/51
Scope and Contents

Edinburgh, from the King's Bastion. Line engraving. 1832. Ewbank, John Wilson, 1799?-1847, Artist; Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859, Engraver; Hamilton, John, Publisher.

Published in: Edinburgh Delineated (1832).

Note: At top left: '9'; At top right: '1st'; 1825 edition, with amendments (Tron Kirk).

Dates: 1832
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

George Heriot's Hospital etc. from the Castle Hill, 1825

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/144(iii)
Scope and Contents

George Heriot's Hospital etc. from the Castle Hill. Line engraving. 1825. Ewbank, John Wilson, 1799?-1847, Artist; Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859, Engraver; Lizars, Daniel, 1793-, Publisher.

Published in: Picturesque Views of Edinburgh (1825).

Dates: 1825
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Heriot's Hospital, undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/144(ii)
Scope and Contents

Heriot's Hospital. Line engraving. Undated. Unknown creator.

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

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