Photographs 1842-61
Albums compiled by Prince Albert, reflecting his beliefs surrounding photography
ROSS & THOMSON (ACTIVE 1847-1890S)
In Grey Friars Church Yard
c. 1849Salted paper print | 20.5 x 14.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2600315
Photograph of a young boy sitting on the Thomas Bannatyne Monument. Two sets of double spiralled columns support a central carving and epitaph with a smaller plaque above with a carving of a cherub in front of buildings from 17th century Edinburgh, when the tomb was erected. Spiralled columns either side. The upper part of this tomb was recently restored following its collapse some years earlier.
Creator(s)
Ross & Thomson (active 1847-1890s) (photographer)
20.5 x 14.4 cm (image)
29.7 x 37.1 cm (page dimensions)
In Grey Friars Church Yard [Calotype Specimens]
From an album presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1849
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Lothian [Scotland]
- Edinburgh [Scotland]
- Greyfriars Kirkyard [Edinburgh]
- Bannatyne Monument [Edinburgh]
- Greyfriars Kirkyard [Edinburgh]
- Edinburgh [Scotland]
- Lothian [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Funerary architecture
- Funerary monuments
- Funerary architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Architecture
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Construction
- Structural parts of buildings
- Columns
- Spiral columns
- Columns
- Structural parts of buildings
- Construction
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
- Literature
- Poetry
- Epitaphs
- Poetry
- Literature
- Places
