With a few exceptions, the views are engraved by John Gellatly (1802-1859), Scottish draughtsman, engraver and lithographer. Dean Bridge and Trinity Chapel are drawn and engraved by J. Stephenson. Burn’s monument is by Robert S. Tait (1816?-1897), portrait painter and portrait photographer, active 1845-1875. Scott’s Monument “to be erected” [1840-1844] by George Meikle Kemp (1795-1844), self-taught Scottish architect designed and built the monument.
G.M. Kemp, poorly ed­u­cated son of a shep­herd show­ing tal­ents in wood­work­ing as a child, was ap­pren­ticed to a joiner and mill­wright. He was able to mem­o­rise exact de­tails of build­ings and mea­sure pre­cise dis­tances by eye, Kemp is con­sid­ered to have been high on the autism spec­trum. (Morven Leese)