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The
statue of philosopher David Hume (1711 -1776) was completed in 1995 by
sculptor Sandy Stoddart, it is situated in front of the High Court Building
(formally the Sheriff Court) on the Royal Mile.
The funding for the project was derived from an international appeal headed
by the Duke of Edinburgh.
The figure, cast in Bronze, is one-and-a-half times life size and was
designed as an 'extremely grave and serious representation'.
Nigel Bruce, Convenor of the Saltire Society, who backed the proposal
said, "Hume was without doubt one of the most influential thinkers
of all time.
More than 200 years after his death, it is surely time that we had a statue
to the man".
The back of the statue
