Top of the West Bow

Category

Library Item

Item no

2936

Title

Top of the West Bow

Description

The top of the West Bow in Edinburgh showing buildings on either side of a road. People stand outside the houses.

Artist / maker

Wood, T. Peploe

Date

1839

Size

17.7 x 11.7 cm

Type

Wash drawing

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Edinburgh's West Bow was zig-zagging street which led up from the Grassmarket to the top of the Lawnmarket. The street was interrupted by the construction of Victoria Street and Terrace between 1829-34. Its lower section joining the Grassmarket remains, and the line of the old street can be followed via a staircase to the Upper Bow. Traffic now follows Victoria Street from the West Bow up to George IV Bridge.

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