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Grassmarket and Bow

Skene, James, 1827, Watercolour
Grassmarket and Bow
Grassmarket and Bow
Grassmarket and Bow
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1171
Title
Grassmarket and Bow
Description
A scaffold has a crowd of people around it and is being prepared for a hanging in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh. A roofed structure is next to the scaffold and is full of people too, the structure perhaps covers a well. Horses and carts make their way up the road by the West Bow, the road being bordered on either side by high tenement buildings.
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Date
1827
Size
25 x 18 cm.
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
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