The_Parliament_Close_and_Public_Characters_Fifty_Years_Since.jpg
Summary
Description The Parliament Close and Public Characters Fifty Years Since.jpg |
English:
"The Parliament Close and Public Characters Fifty Years Since". It depicts a scene from before 1796, the year when the Goldsmiths' Hall, seen on the left of the picture, was burnt down. Some of the characters shown in the painting, based on caricatures by John Kay, are identified on its description page at Commons.
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Date | (depicting 1794) |
Source | scanned from The Story Of Scotland, First Press and Scottish Daily Record Group, 1999-2000 |
Author | Sir David Wilkie, figures by Alexander Fraser and William Kidd; architectural details by David Roberts and John Wilson. |
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Annotations
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Rt. Hon. Lord Adam Gordon and HRH the Count of d'Artois (later Charles X of France)
Dr Glen and the Daft Highland Laird
Rev. Joseph Robertson (minister of the Gaelic Chapel)
William Smellie, Printer, and Andrew Bell, Engraver
Advocates
Andrew Nicol, Mary Walker and John Skene
Historian Hugo Arnot and a beggar
Fishwife and Caddie
Member of the Town Guard
James Hunter (Writer to the Signet) and his son, George Hunter
Dr. Alexander Munro, Secundus, Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University
Dr. Gregory Grant, Physician
'Bailie' James Duff (an eccentric simpleton who dressed as a magistrate)
Statue of Charles II