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Boyd's Close, Canongate
Channing, William, 1850, Pencil work
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Boyd's Close, Canongate
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19170
Title
Boyd's Close, Canongate
Artist / maker
Channing, William
Date
1850
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25.3 x 19.0 cm
Type
Pencil work
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Boyds Close - entered from east side of St. Mary's Wynd. It was Boyd's Close where Dr Johnson lodged in 1773. Demolished by the Improvement Act of 1866.
The 'Closes' of Edinburgh's Old Town are narrow passages branching off at right angles from the main streets. They provide access to the tenement buildings, and often to small shared courtyards. Many Closes also act as shortcuts between Old Town's main streets
William Channing's drawings and paintings from the bound volume of his 'Sketches in Edinburgh', give an artist's impression of tenement life in the mid 19th century. His drawings are glimpses into the past down the narrow Closes and alleyways of the Old Town. We see higgledy-piggledy houses and tenements towering skywards, laundry hanging from windows across the walkways and local characters talking in the streets.
Channing's delightful sketches are particularly valued for their representation of the architectural elements and details of buildings and closes now much changed or long since disappeared.
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