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Cowgate, looking east
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1829, Engraving
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Cowgate, looking east
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Title
Cowgate, looking east
Description
The street below the tall tenements of the Cowgate in Edinburgh is busy. Two white horses pull a cart laden with goods. A woman walks along the street carrying a large basket on her back. Barrels and ladders are pilled up outside one of the buildings.
Artist / maker
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
Engraver
Radclyffe, W
Date
1829
Size
9.7 x 14.3 cm
Type
Engraving
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This image comes from 'Modern Athens', a book of engravings based on drawings by Thomas Shepherd published in 1829. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Edinburgh was growing rapidly. The popular neoclassical architectural style of the time was inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and Edinburgh was nicknamed 'Athens of the North'. Shepherd's engravings celebrate the beauty of Edinburgh and show many notable buildings and streets both within the city, and further afield.
The Cowgate runs from its junction with St Mary's Street (formerly St Mary's Wynd) and the Pleasance to the Grassmarket. Cattle were driven along this route when entering Edinburgh from grazing land outside the city. The Cowgate Port was a gateway through the Flodden Wall situated at the street's east end.
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