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The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana. [ 1 ] It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh , opposite the former Jenners building on Princes Street and near Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station ...
George Meikle Kemp (25 May 1795—6 March 1844) was a self-taught Scottish architect who designed and built the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland.The poorly educated son of a shepherd, showing talents in woodworking as a child, he was apprenticed to a joiner and millwright.
Steell was born in Aberdeen, but his family moved to 5 Calton Hill in Edinburgh in 1806. [3] He was one of the thirteen children (eleven surviving beyond infancy) of John Steell senior (1779–1849), a carver and gilder, and his wife, Margaret Gourlay, the daughter of William Gourlay, a Dundee shipbuilder.
Ellen Cree, 29, who attended a memorial at the Walter Scott Monument in George Square in Glasgow, said it was a “very poignant event”. Ms Cree, from Dunfermline, Fife, who left white roses and ...
Ivanhoe on the Scott Monument, Edinburgh (sculpted by John Rhind) Ivanhoe: A Romance (/ ˈ aɪ v ən h oʊ / EYE-vən-hoh) by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. It marked a shift away from Scott's prior practice of setting stories in Scotland and in the more recent ...
Tobias Smollett as depicted on the Scott Monument. Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon. [1] He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), [2] which influenced later generations of British ...
English: The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana.[1] It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite the Jenners department store on Princes Street and near to Edinburgh Waverley Railway ...
Monument to Rev. John Paul in St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh (1873) Bust of Baroness Burdett-Coutts, for the Coutts Bank (1873) Portrait medallion on the grave of Robert William Thomson (engineer), Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh (1873) A number of figures commissioned for the centenary of Sir Walter Scott's birth (1871) added to the Scott Monument in 1874