A Remembrance of Broughton Burn

Category

Library Item

Item no

19175

Title

A Remembrance of Broughton Burn

Artist / maker

Channing, William

Date

1874

Size

23.2 x 30.4 cm

Type

Wash drawing

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

A remembrance of Broughton Burn - this area was built over by the foot of Broughton Street, East London Place (Street?) and the Catholic Apostolic Church.

Broughton was originally a separate village to the north of Edinburgh. It became absorbed into the city during Edinburgh's northward expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries

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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