Blair's Close

Category

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Item no

491

Title

Blair's Close, Castle Hill, showing doorway of the Gordon House

Description

Pencil drawing of Blair's Close on Castle Hill, Edinburgh, showing the archway leading to the turretted Duke of Gordon's House. There is a lamp attached to the wall above the doorway, which has stone carvings above it.

Artist / maker

Home, Bruce James

Date

1864

Size

17 x 29 cm.

Type

Pencil work

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Blair's Close is named after the writer Archibald Blair who acquired a tenement here c1747. Over the door is a marquis' coronet flanked by 2 deerhounds; the Gordon family is thought to have lived here in the 17th century.

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

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Architecture > Architectural features > Arches

Architecture > Architectural features > Doors and doorways

Architecture > Architectural features > Stone carvings

Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Edinburgh areas > Royal Mile

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh