Accession number:
PML 88551
Published:
Edinburgh : Published at W. Macgill's, 7 Hanover Street, [ca. 1840]
Description:
1 panorama : handcol. ill. (lithographs) ; 28 x 230 cm (strip)
Credit:
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes:
"The Names of the Principal Churches, Monuments, Offices &c. are marked directly underneath. The Hills with their heights above the Sea level and their distances from Edinr. Towns &c. and their distances. &c."--lower margin of print.
"S. Leith's Lithogy. Edinr."--lower margin of print.
Six handcolored lithographed prints depicting Edinburgh, are pasted together in a long strip, mounted on linen, edges bound in green silk ribbon. Locations include the Chapel and Palace of Holyrood, Burn's Monument, Railway Station, Edinburgh Coal Gass Works, High Kirk, Edinburgh Castle, Princes Street, Arthur's Seat, Stewart's Monument, etc. Animated with figures in the foreground.
Binding:
In publisher's brown morocco tube, title stamped in gold on lid. 35 x 5.4 (diam.) cm.
Variant Title:
Panoramic view of Edinburgh.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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