Calton Hill; Robert Burns Monument
Hamilton, Thomas
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Alternative Title
Robert Burns Monument
Date
1831Description
Overall view in small park in front of Calton Cemetery; 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. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/30/2012)
Type of Work
monument; tholosSubject
architecture, death or burial, funerary art, Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, Nineteenth century, Greek Revival, Neoclassical
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