Castle Hill Showing the Laus Deo House

Category

Library Item

Item no

488

Title

Castle Hill showing the Laus Deo House in front of the Palace of Mary of Guise

Description

Pencil drawing of Castlehill with its tenement buildings.

Artist / maker

Drummond, James

Date

1849

Size

22 x 25 cm.

Type

Pencil work

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Painted on 9th July 1849.

Castlehill is the section of the Royal Mile running from Castle Esplanade to the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.

Behind the 'Laus Deo' house stood the ornate palace and oratory of Mary of Guise, built in the 16th century, and to the right, is Somerville's Land, owned by Bartholomew Somerville, merchant burgess in the 1630s.

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