West Bow Port

Category

Library Item

Item no

777

Title

West Bow Port

Description

A man leads a horse and cart up past the old city gate, West Bow Port, Edinburgh. People walk along the street or up the staircases leading into a tall building with a crow-stepped gable. Chimneys smoke on the rooftops.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1817

Size

25 x 16 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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Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Land > Horse and carts

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