{"id":161,"date":"2015-05-11T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/?p=161"},"modified":"2015-05-07T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:03:13","slug":"visualising-the-scott-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/2015\/05\/11\/visualising-the-scott-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualising the Scott Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Semester 2 this year,\u00a0we had\u00a0a number of first-year architecture students visiting the CRC to research historic Edinburgh buildings. There have been enquiries about Old College, New College, and the National Museum of Scotland, but the most popular building by far has been the Scott Monument. Designed by local (and self-taught) architect George Meikle Kemp (1795-1844) and constructed between 1840 and 1846, the monument is a defining feature of Edinburgh\u2019s New Town.<\/p>\n<p>The CRC\u2019s Corson collection of books by and about Sir Walter Scott contains plenty of books about the Scott Monument, including Thomas Bonnar\u2019s Biographical Sketch of George Meikle Kemp (1892), as well a few oddities (a Scott-themed thermometer and even a bar of soap!). Further information about the Corson collection is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk\/corson.html\">online<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/i560h8\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-163 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0030068d-461x1024.jpg\" alt=\"0030068d\" width=\"461\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0030068d-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0030068d-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0030068d.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/88ql6w\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-164 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0030071d-776x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Two bars of soap illustrated with the Scott Monument and Edinburgh Castle.\" width=\"584\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0030071d-776x1024.jpg 776w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0030071d-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0030071d.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> One of the most distinctive images of the Scott Monument in our collection is an early calotype, circa 1845, taken by Edinburgh photographers D.O. Hill and R. Adamson. <a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/2d103v\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-162 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0012164c-765x1024.jpg\" alt=\"0012164c\" width=\"584\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0012164c-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0012164c-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/files\/2015\/04\/0012164c.jpg 1148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> The calotype process, developed by Henry Fox Talbot in 1841, used silver iodide to produce paper negatives; these were then printed onto silver chloride, or &#8220;salted paper&#8221;. The original prints are extremely sensitive to light but we have digitized our entire collection of about 700 Hill and Adamson calotypes. You can view them online here: <a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/UoEcar~4~4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/UoEcar~4~4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Anne Peale, CRC Evening Assistant<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Semester 2 this year,\u00a0we had\u00a0a number of first-year architecture students visiting the CRC to research historic Edinburgh buildings. There have been enquiries about Old College, New College, and the National Museum of Scotland, but the most popular building by far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/2015\/05\/11\/visualising-the-scott-monument\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,16,23,2],"tags":[19,18,17],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}