Edinburgh, Calton Hill, Nelson's Monument

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Alternative Names Greenside; Calton Hill, Off Regent Road, Nelson's Monument
Site type COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT
Canmore ID 52378
Site Number NT27SE 348
NGR NT 26252 74107
Council EDINBURGH, CITY OF
Parish EDINBURGH (EDINBURGH, CITY OF)
Former Region LOTHIAN
Former District CITY OF EDINBURGH
Former County MIDLOTHIAN

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RAB 104/49 On page 49 vignette of Nelson's Monument.  General Collection  1900 RCAHMS 
PA 104/8/3 'Nelson's Monument' Album No:104, page 8 Notman Collection Album A, (360x470). Blue Leather Album with gold highlighting and card pages. High quality amateur photographs, largely architecture with an emphasis on Castles  William Notman   
RAB 140/18/2 Eighteenth page, second view. General view of Calton Hill, looking east and showing Dugald Stewart, National and Nelson Monuments Insc.: 'Calton Hill'  General Collection  RCAHMS 
RAB 140/19/1 Nineteenth Page, first view. Photographh of the Monument against background of sky Insc.: 'Nelson's Monument'  General Collection  RCAHMS 
PA 146/16/1 Page 16/ Edinburgh, general. View of from Hunter's Bog. Titled: 'Edinburgh: from Hunter's Bog toward Holyrood House and Calton Hill' PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 146: THE ANNAN ALBUM     1880  
ED 15446 PO Historic photographic view of Calton Hill from S.    1880 RCAHMS 
ED 15447 PO Historical photograph from SE.    RCAHMS 
EDD 23/4 "NATIONAL MONUMENT, EDINBURGH, FROM NEW LONDON ROAD"  General Collection   
RAB 238/3/2 Page 3/2, View of Monuments on Calton Hill Insc.: 'Nelson and National Monuments on Calton Hill'  General Collection  1900 RCAHMS 
EDD 27/4 "THE CALTON HILL (With Nelson's Monument)"     
EDD 27/5 Engraving. General view.     
EDD 27/6 Nelson Monument     
EDD 27/7 Engraving of Princes Street looking east towards Calton Hill and Nelson's Monument inscr; 'TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES This Engraving shewing the Effect from Princes Street Edinburgh of the Intended Monument on the Calton Hill in Memory of the GALLANT NELSON is most humbly Inscribed by his most devoted Servt. the Author A. Nasmyth.'    RCAHMS 
RAB 278/216/1 Drawing by K F Schinkel of view of Edinburgh from Nelson's Monument, 1826.  General Collection  RCAHMS 
RAB 292/120 Edinburgh, coloured engraving of Nelson's Monument seen from a road below with a gabled house. outbuilding & wall in foreground. Titled ' Nelson's Monument on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Plate 21. Vol.5.'  General Collection  RCAHMS 
AL 3/1 Page 1 Engraving, titled: 'Edinburgh from Arthur Seat' with various landmarks pointed out including Heriot's Hospital, Castle, Assembly Hall, High Church, Tron Church, Scott's Mon., Melville's Mon., Register House, Stewart's Mon., Nelson's Mon., Burns' Monument and Holyrood Palace. ALBUM 3: DAVIDSON'S OF MUIRHOUSE ALBUM.  Davidsons of Muirhouse  1880  
AL 5 ALBUM NO 6: ARCHIBALD CRAIG SCRAPBOOKS 3 VOLUMES Volume 2 of three scrapbooks compiled c.1825-50, bound in leather, labelled on the spine and titled 'Scrap Book' and numbered I-III, and bearing the bookplate of Archibald Craig. In the front of Volume III there is a manuscript family tree. Archibald Craig b.1805, educated at Craigmount and the Edinburgh Institution, from whome volumes descend to Archibald Hugh Craig b.1892, (address under Copyright field); Archibald Hugh Baillie Craig b.1925 (address under Copyright field). The family, as Craig Bros., were wholesale and retail woollen merchants and hatters in Edinburgh, running a cloth warehouse on the South Bridge. The volumes, which reflect Archibald's diverse interests, contain a typical collection of cuttings but with an emphasis on military subjects. They include engravings and sketches of buildings in Edinburgh and the vicinity, miscellaneous drawings and an unidentified architect's design for a Monument to General Sir Ralph Abercromby (died 1801).   Archibald Craig  1850 RCAHMS 
AL 5/11/3 Page 11/3 Engraving showing Nelson's Monument, the National Monument and the Observatory, insc: 'Drawn by J. Ewbank S.A. Engd. by W. & A.W. Johnston National Monument, Edinburgh, from New London Road.' ALBUM NO 5: ARCHIBALD CRAIG SCRAPBOOKS VOL 2  Archibald Craig  1830 RCAHMS 
AL 5/12/1 Page 12/1 Engraving showing general view of Edinburgh, insc: 'Drawn by Geo. M. Kemp Engraved by J. & J. Johnstone Edinburgh from St. Anthony's Chapel.' ALBUM NO 5: ARCHIBALD CRAIG SCRAPBOOKS VOL 2  Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland  1820 RCAHMS 
PA 50/4/C 'Nelson's Monument, Calton Hill' NMRS PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS No.50: D O Hill IMITATOR ALBUM Black leather with gilt striped spine. 11 1/2 x 10" Includes photographs by a D O Hill imitator of c.1850 (pp.20-22) Previously catalogued under 'MS/274     
Charity SC026749