South Queensferry

Category

Library Item

Item no

31442

Title

South Queensferry

Artist / maker

Ross, Thomas

Date

1888

Size

27.7 x 39.0 cm

Type

Watercolour

Location

Art and Design Library

Thomas Ross was born at Wardheads, Errol, and attended local schools before going to Glasgow around 1855 to work as an assistant to architect Alexander Kirkland.
In 1862 he began as an assistant to David MacGibbon in Edinburgh, and was made a partner in the firm of MacGibbon and Ross in 1872. Ross began sketching the architecture of Scotland along with his senior partner, contributing to the latter's public lectures, and culminating in the pair's major publications.

South Queensferry is a former Royal Burgh located ten miles to the north west of the centre of Edinburgh, on the shore of the Firth of Forth. Queensferry is referred to as South Queensferry in order to distinguish it from North Queensferry on the other side of the estuary.

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