[Engraving by W.H. Lizars of 'Findlater's obelisk', a monument erected in 1804 by the town council of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic) to honour James Ogilvie, Earl of Findlater]
[Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars,
1830?]
Possibly a plate taken from a book, but not traced.
The obelisk was erected upon the order of the Karlsbad (Carlsbad) Town Council in honour of the Scottish peer, Lord James Ogilvy, Earl of Findlater and Earl of Seafield, who stayed at the local spa 14 times between the years 1793 and 1810 and funded the building and enlargement of several promenades in the spa woods. The unveiling ceremony of the obelisk erected in the spa woods took place on 4 August 1804. The monument is an eight metres tall, three-sided column assembled from sandstone blocks.
The engraving also depicts the German inscriptions on each of the three sides of the obelisk and gives an English translation of them.
Ogilvie, James, Earl of Seafield, 1750-1811.
Scotland Edinburgh.