West Bow

Category

Library Item

Item no

774

Title

West Bow

Description

A man holding a whip leads a team of horses up West Bow, Edinburgh, while a woman watches, leaning over a rail. There are tall buildings on both sides of the street. To the right there is a shop with goods on the walland people standing outside. To the left, a person walks up a set of stairs.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1817

Size

23 x 20 cm.

Type

Wash drawing

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Edinburgh's West Bow was zig-zagging street which led from the Grassmarket to the Lawnmarket. Its upper half was destroyed by the construction of Victoria Street and Terrace. Originally the street was filled with a quirky assortment of 17th-century tenements, with crow-stepped gables, flight-holes for doves, towers and merchants shops.

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Business > Service industry > Shops

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Edinburgh areas > Royal Mile

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Land > Horse and carts

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