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1839 · High Street, Old Town
The High Street, Edinburgh – 1839
High Street, Old Town
From £29.99
A detailed 1839 engraving of Edinburgh’s High Street, reproduced from a genuine antique print in the Colin Myers Collection.
Archive-sourcedFrom a genuine antique print
Professionally printedProduced with care by a specialist print studio
Carefully packedProtected for the journey
The story behind the view
A record of Edinburgh
Published in 1839, this finely observed view records Edinburgh’s High Street as a busy, inhabited place. Tall Old Town tenements frame the street while traders, carts and pedestrians animate the foreground—small details that turn an architectural view into a piece of social history.
