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View from the Top of Calton Hill by Nelson's Monument, looking to the West   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Westall

After: Mary, Lady Elton
Printed by: Charles Joseph Hullmandel
Published by: John Fairbairn
Published by: Ackermann
Title
View from the Top of Calton Hill by Nelson's Monument, looking to the West
Description
English: Panoramic view with Edinburgh castle on the Mound in the centre distance, the north bridge before it, leading towards the Governor of the Jail's house, with Bridewell in in the foreground, to the left of Prince's street, which curves into the distance, towards St John's Church, with two women sitting on the top of the hill in the right foreground, the corner of Nelson's monument in the far right; after Lady Elton. 1823
Lithograph on thin paper
Depicted people Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1823
date QS:P571,+1823-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 221 millimetres
Width: 615 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1917,1208.4363
Notes

One of four, of which there is a set bound in its original brown wrapper with the dedication sheet to George IV and full publication details, in BM P&D: 'Four Panoramic Views of the City of Edinburgh, Taken from the Calton Hill, by Lady Elton, (late Miss Stewart), Published for the Benefit of the Deaf & Dumb Institution of Edinburgh'. See 1892,0314.13.1-4.

See also Abbey 499, for four similar views by Westall after Lady Elton, published in 1822, of Edinburgh from Blackford Hill.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1917-1208-4363
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