John Hutchison (sculptor)
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John Hutchison was a Scottish sculptor based in Edinburgh. He was the son of an unnamed builder, and his artistic life began as a thirteen-year-old woodcarving apprentice. He attended art school in th
John Hutchison by G.P. Chalmers
Fraser the patron ...
... and Hutchison the student
Robert Scott Lauder (1872)
Scott Monument
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The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana. It stands in
John Hutchison (sculptor)
…Hutchison executed the Marble Monument to George Paul Chalmers in Dean Cemetery in 1880. In 1882 he contributed three or four stone figures to the Scott Monument on Princes Street including Baron Bradwardine, The Glee Maiden and Flora MacIvor, plus "eight heads in relief for the relic room." Four busts followed…
Street view of the Scott Monument
The Monument in 1845, shortly after its completion
A panorama of Edinburgh, seen from the Scott Monument
Detail of the Scott Monument