McCaig's Folly, Oban, Argyll
Artist/Photographer | Smith, Edwin (1912-1971) |
Country | UK: Scotland |
City | Oban |
Subject Date | 1897 |
Image Date | 1963 |
View | Exterior |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | ESP/SCO/370 (ES1006) |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Edwin Smith / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Monuments ; Arches ; Follies ; Stone |
NOTES: This replica of the Colosseum in Rome was undertaken in 1897 by a local banker, John Stuart McCaig, but was never completed. It was erected at a cost of +é-ú5,000 as both a job creation scheme at a time of high unemployment in the area and as a lasting monument to the McCaig family.
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