Corstorphine

Category

Library Item

Item no

716

Title

Corstorphine

Description

Groups of people stand inside a large building in Corstorphine, Edinburgh. To the back of the picture a staircase leads up to a doorway on the first floor beneath a high arch. Two women are sitting on a bench beneath the stairs. In front of them stand two women and a man talking. Another group of people enters through a doorway by an alcove in a wall, which is decorated with carved arches.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1827

Size

23 x 23 cm.

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

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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Architecture > Architectural features > Arches

Architecture > Architectural features > Stairways

Architecture > Architectural features > Stone carvings

People > Adults > Men

People > Adults > Women

Places > Edinburgh areas > Corstorphine

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Religion > Religious facilities > Protestant churches

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