Near Corstorphine

Category

Library Item

Item no

582

Title

Near Corstorphine

Description

In a scene near Corstorphine, Edinburgh, two very large trees dominate the picture. In front of them are two carts known as noddys. The horse-drawn carts are full and a person sits on the top of the cart. A horse from one of the carts drinks at a water trough. A man with a hat is riding a horse. Two people walk along a pathway.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1837

Size

25 x 18 cm.

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Painted 29th September 1837

Corstorphine was originally a separate village west of Edinburgh. It has been incorporated into the city and is now one of its most significant suburbs. The Forrester Family, who built Corstorphine Castle, controlled the area's lands from the 14th to the 18th Century. The Castle was dismantled in the 18th Century, but its doocot, or dovecot remains. The lands were subsequently owned by the Dicks, a family of Edinburgh lawyers and merchants, and later the Dicksons. Corsorphine is now home to Edinburgh Zoo.

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