File:Aerial View of Edinburgh, by Alfred Buckham, from about 1920.jpg

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Description	English: "Aerial View of Edinburgh", a 45.80 x 37.80 cm silver gelatin print of a photograph taken by Alfred Buckham in about 1920. From the National Gallery: "Buckham’s aerial view of Edinburgh has become one of the most popular photographs in our collection. The view is taken from the west, with the castle in the foreground and the buildings of the Old Town along the Royal Mile gradually fading into a bank of mist with the rocky silhouette of Arthur’s Seat just visible in the distance. Buckham was always keen to capture strong contrasts of light and dark, often combining the skies and landscapes from separate photographs to achieve a theatrical effect. As he does here, he sometimes collaged or hand-painted the form of a tiny aircraft to enhance the vertiginous effect. Yet accuracy remained a concern; Buckham later professed a particular fondness for his view of Edinburgh, ‘because it presents, so nearly, the effect that I saw’."
Source	https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/17391/aerial-view-edinburgh-about-1920
Date	about 1920
Author	Alfred G. Buckham (1879 - 1956); restored by Adam Cuerden
Permission (Reusing this file)	See below.
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current	21:35, 6 May 2022	5,345 × 6,541 (18.21 MB)	Adam Cuerden (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 21:34, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
	21:35, 6 May 2022	5,345 × 6,541 (17.73 MB)	Adam Cuerden (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 21:11, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
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Horizontal resolution	28.35 dpc
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File change date and time	22:33, 6 May 2022
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Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:7d955905-4114-452e-afce-7c1ecce40f47