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High School Wynd, Canongate
Channing, William, 1850, Pencil work
High School Wynd, Canongate
High School Wynd, Canongate
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19134
Title
High School Wynd, Canongate
Description
High School Wynd, looking south from the foot of Blackfriar's Wynd with Cardinal Beaton's house on the left.
Artist / maker
Channing, William
Date
1850
Size
25.1 x 17.5 cm
Type
Pencil work
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
High School Wynd is a short street linking Infirmary Street with the Cowgate. Edinburgh High School was built on what is now called Infirmary Street in 1578. The School moved to Regent Road in 1829, and stayed in those grand premises until moving to Barnton in 1969.
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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