Greenside, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

5039

Title

Greenside, Edinburgh

Description

The view looks across a rooftop landscape to tall tenement buildings and towers on the skyline. A domed tower with a clock face dominates the horizon. In the foreground at the left is an area of leafy trees.

Artist / maker

Rose, David T.

Date

1942

Size

28.7 x 39.6 cm

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

David Thomas Rose was born in the Scottish Borders and brought up in Nairn.
His first job took him to Glasgow in 1896 where he studied in night classes in Glasgow Academy of Art.
Family summer holidays were mostly taken in Scotland. His sister became a eminent obstetrician, working in Edinburgh and the Roses would often stay with her in Joppa or with other family in Fife. While there in 1933 Rose sketched prolifically, especially in the Dean Village and Leith Docks.

The Greenside area of Edinburgh, immediately to the west of Calton Hill, changed substantially during the second half of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century. Tall, 19th century tenement buildings were demolished in the 1960's as part of Edinburgh's slum clearances. The Omni Centre, comprising a 12 screen cinema, hotel, bars, restaurants and a fitness centre was opened on the site in 2002.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Roofs

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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