Allan Ramsay Monument, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh

Sir John Steell, 1850 and David Bryce, 1865. Pedestrian figure of Allan Ramsay in 18th century costume, with cape, and holding book; Carrara marble, by Steell, on square-plan corniced ashlar pedestal with Corinthian colonnettes to corners and high relief sculpted profile portraits (see Notes) to each elevation. Square-plan Baronial substructure by Bryce: stugged sandstone with polished dressings; timber boarded door with decorative iron hinges to W elevation in roll-moulded surround with rope hoodmould; stop-chamfered corners; corbelled out to corners above (carved masks to corbels); rope moulding and cannon spouts to corbel course; balustrade with semicircular corners to roof.