Grey Friars Church, Edinburgh - Original Engraving by T. Barber - c. 1829
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Original steel engraving with Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh seen from its celebrated churchyard, with the gravestones and funerary monuments in the foreground and a few figures among them. Below, "Grey Friars' Church, Edinburgh", with the signatures of Tho. H. Shepherd, who made the drawing, and of T. Barber, the engraver.
Original steel engraving with Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh seen from its celebrated churchyard, with the gravestones and funerary monuments in the foreground and a few figures among them. Below, "Grey Friars' Church, Edinburgh", with the signatures of Tho. H. Shepherd, who made the drawing, and of T. Barber, the engraver.
It comes from Modern Athens, the set of Edinburgh views drawn by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and published in London by Jones & Co. about 1829-1831, the most complete series of the city in its neoclassical moment.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: Thomas H. Shepherd
Engraver / lithographer: T. Barber
Source: Modern Athens, Jones & Co., London
Date: About 1829
Dimensions: 6.7 x 5.1 in (17 x 13 cm)
Condition: Fair; the sheet somewhat toned, with a small cut in the lower margin and slight creases at the edges, all outside the image
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Original steel engraving with Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh seen from its celebrated churchyard, with the gravestones and funerary monuments in the foreground and a few figures among them. Below, "Grey Friars' Church, Edinburgh", with the signatures of Tho. H. Shepherd, who made the drawing, and of T. Barber, the engraver.