Gladstone's Land

Category

Library Item

Item no

520

Title

Gladstone's Land

Description

Watercolour depicting Gladstone's Land. There is a whisky or liquor store to the right hand side of the building. The shop next door has a brightly coloured canopy, people stand outside in the street.

Artist / maker

Ross, Thomas

Date

1878

Size

16 x 38 cm.

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Gladstone's Land is located in the Lawnmarket.It is a six-storey, 17th century merchant house in a traditional arcaded stone tenement building. It was built in 1631 by Thomas Gladstone.

Lawnmarket is the section of Edinburgh's Royal Mile running from its' junction with Johnston Terrace to where it meets George IV Bridge. Regular markets were held in this area until the late eighteenth century.

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Business > Service industry > Shops

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

(55°56′57″N, 3°11′37″W)

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