Horse Wynd, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

12155

Title

Horse Wynd, Edinburgh

Artist / maker

Theys, Freddy

Date

2000

Size

32.5 x 13.4 cm

Type

Etching

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Horse Wynd appears on the earliest maps of Edinburgh and is so named possibly as the road to Holyrood Palace stables, or possibly as the road horse-riders coming from the south would take into the Canongate.

Freddy Theys is a Belgian engraver of town scenes, botanics and portraits. He visits Scotland annually.

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