Galloway's Close, High Street

Category

Library Item

Item no

19131

Title

Galloway's Close, High Street

Artist / maker

Channing, William

Date

1850

Size

26.0 x 18.0 cm

Type

Pen work; Wash drawing

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Galloway's Close, the High Street is the section of Edinburgh's Royal Mile that runs from George IV Bridge down to its junction with Jeffrey Street and St. Mary's Street.

Note on back of print reads:
'Close name unknown, a few doors from Bank Street, looking east'.

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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