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High Street tenement
Channing, William, 1849, Wash drawing
High Street tenement
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19120
Title
High Street tenement
Artist / maker
Channing, William
Date
1849
Size
25.2 x 17.3 cm
Type
Wash drawing
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The depicted tenement on the High Street north side, stood immediately to the east of John Knox house. The church at the time contained the excise office. The Royal Arms appear above the first floor.
William Channing's drawings and paintings from the bound volume of his 'Sketches in Edinburgh', give an artist's impression of tenement life in the mid 19th century. His drawings are glimpses into the past down the narrow Closes and alleyways of the Old Town. We see higgledy-piggledy houses and tenements towering skywards, laundry hanging from windows across the walkways and local characters talking in the streets.
Channing's delightful sketches are particularly valued for their representation of the architectural elements and details of buildings and closes now much changed or long since disappeared.
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Wm. Channing's sketches in Edinburgh (2)
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