(11) Hand Colored Steel Engravings & Maps. Early Map of Edinburgh - "Edengvrg M, Scotiae Metropolis". "Castrum Puellarum" Castle of the Maidens. Hand Colored Steel Engraving,St. Giles's - St. Giles's Church, County Hall, and Lawn Market Series: Modern Athens. Artist: Shepherd T H. Engraver: Tombleson W. Hand Colored Steel Engraving of London - Artist: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1793-1864) was a British topographical watercolor artist. Engraver: W. Watkins. English engraver. 1823-1831 (fl.) (The British Museum). Title: Gray's Inn Hall, Chapel, and Library. Signed and Titled in plate beneath the image by both the artist and the engraver. Publisher: Jones and Company (London). Edition: London and Its Environs in the Nineteenth Century. Date: 1829-1831. (The British Museum). Materials and Techniques: Steel engraving. Hand-colored. Mat and Frame: Matted and sealed in a transparent film. Condition: Very Fine. Unexamined outside of the film. Hand Colored Steel Engraving of Edinburgh - The West Bow, from the Lawnmarket by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1829. And others. Size of Largest Frame: 15 x 19 1/4 in. Edinburgh is shown in plan view from the south, in the foreground are two figures wearing the typical style of dress of the nobility during the time of Mary, Queen of Scots. Perched atop the Castle Rock is Edinburgh Castle, indicated here as Castrum puellarum, or "Maidens' Castle". The origins of this designation are not known. According to one legend it can be traced back to a tradition among the Picts of holding virgins captive in the castle. Other sources refer to a legend claiming that princesses were able to live there in safety. It is also the place where King Malcolm III's widow, later St Margaret of Scotland, allegedly resided in the 11th century. The upper, horizontal thoroughfare, the High Street (later called the Royal Mile), which leads from the Castle Rock via the Gothic church of St Giles and the town gate in the east to Holyrood abbey, can readily be identified. The guesthouse of the abbey was transformed in the 16th century into the official residence of the British Monarchy in Scotland, the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Due to a burgeoning population Edinburgh's buildings had as many as 12 floors. Contemporary accounts tell of the miserable hygienic conditions that prevailed there and the resulting spread of disease. Around 1550 the town had 15,000 inhabitants; today 435,000 people live in Scotland's capital. The engraving was made after a woodcut by Raphael Holinshead, 1574. (Taschen)