ca. 1850–1880Edinburgh
Princes Street and the Scott Monument
Unidentified photographer. A numbered stereograph. The maker is not fixed on the card.
Street photograph
ca. 1850–1880·Edinburgh
Princes Street and the Scott Monument
Unidentified photographer. A numbered stereograph. The maker is not fixed on the card.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
A street photograph, printed as a stereograph. Both frames are kept. Princes Street runs toward the Scott Monument: shops, lamps, carriages, the Gothic canopy. Not a lithograph. Not one frame cut out of the pair.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Scott Monument, on Princes Street.
- Region
- Europe
- Documented completion
- 1844.
- Architect
- George Meikle Kemp.
- Present status
- Surviving — The monument still stands. The shopfronts and the traffic do not match the card. The photographer is not named here. The date is a range.
- Source
- Rijksmuseum, RP-F-F04809 (CC0). Catalog range about 1850–1880. Both frames kept. Not cropped.
- License
- CC0 1.0.