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Baird's Close, West Port
Channing, William, 1854, Pencil work
Baird's Close, West Port
Baird's Close, West Port
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19215
Title
Baird's Close, West Port
Artist / maker
Channing, William
Date
1854
Size
25.3 x 17.4 cm
Type
Pencil work
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Baird's Close on the north side of West Port near the head. (Houses now demolished.)
The West Port is a street that continues west from Edinburgh's Grassmarket towards Lothian Road. It was the site of the western entrance to Edinburgh through the city wall.
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 (1)
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