Calton Hill; Robert Burns Monument (Edinburgh, Scotland) : Detail, looking up at top sculpture group
- Creator:
- Hamilton, Thomas, 1784-1858
- Published/Created:
- Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Base of Calton Hill, Regent Road in front of Calton Cemetery
1831 - Materials:
- stone
- Notes:
- On Regent Road, in front of the Royal High School, also by Hamilton. Hamilton won the 1820 competition for the Burns Monument at Alloway. The monument, built 1820-1823, was based on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, which had been published in Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of Athens (London, 1762), and it attracted a great deal of favourable publicity. In 1831 he designed the Burns Monument, Regent Street, Edinburgh, another classical rotunda. Hamilton never traveled abroad but was capable, as in this monument, of using correct Antique details. The Choragic Monument also provided the model for the nearby Dugald Stewart Monument, designed by William Henry Playfair around the same time.
- Variant Titles:
- Robert Burns Monument
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Britain -- 19th century -- (YVRC)
Architecture -- Scotland -- 19th century -- (YVRC) - Period/Style:
- Greek Revival
Neoclassical
Nineteenth century - Culture:
- British
Scottish - Accession Number:
- 1A2-SC-E-CH-A21
- Coordinates:
- +55.953488-3.178269
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- buildings; tholoi; built works; monuments architecture; death or burial; funerary art; Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Seven
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc. - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4349
- OID:
- 10472489
- PID:
- digcoll:1795387