Engravings

Modern Athens

The book Modern Athens was published in 1829.

Here are some of the subjects:

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Around Edinburgh

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Distant Views

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Edinburgh -  New Town

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Edinburgh - Old Town

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Leith

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Churches

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   Schools

Modern Athens

Comments
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Edinburgh

The paragraphs below are taken from the early pages of Modern Athens:

"There is not, perhaps, a city in Europe that offers to the lover of picturesque scenery, and to the historians a more interesting series of objects for the pencil and pen than Edinburgh.

It is not surprising, therefore, that it has attracted the attention of the artist and the authors in an eminent degree, and that besides many separate prints which have been published, illustrative of the general features, and of particular scenes, several embellished works have been produced on the subject.

Thus field still appears so fertile. and offers such a succession of crops, that new labourers approach it and seek profit, or fame, by trying fresh experiments."

Modern Athens

Engravers

Modern Athens has almost 100 engravings of Shepherd's drawings.  The engravings have been produced by many different engravers:

-   JB Allen
-   T Barber
-   WH Bond (or HW Bond)
-   L Byrne
-   A Cruse
-   J Henshall
-   T Higham

-   J Hinchcliff
-   J Johnstone
-   S Lacey (or S Lacy)
-   WH Lizars
-   A McClatchie
-   W Radclyffe (or Radcliffe)
-   J Redaway

-   EI Roberts
-   J Rolph
-   E Stalker
-   W Tombleson
-   W Wallis
-   W Watkins

Where I have given alternative spellings, it is because both versions appear in Modern Athens, beneath different engravings. So far as I am aware, only WH Lizars from this list, was based in Edinburgh.