Corstorphine Castle

Category

Library Item

Item no

581

Title

Corstorphine Castle

Description

The remaining parts of wall of houses and battlements of a ruined castle are interspersed with trees and vegetation. A ditch runs round a derelict circular construction. In the background buildings can be seen, there is smoke rising from their chimneys. Several surrounding hills can be seen behind the castle.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1837

Size

15 x 25 cm.

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Picture painted on 25 September 1837 and artist annotated with - towers 20 feet diam, curleus (?) 84 ft long.

Corstorphine was originally a separate village west of Edinburgh. It has been incorporated into the city and is now one of its most significant suburbs. The Forrester Family, who built Corstorphine Castle, controlled the area's lands from the 14th to the 18th Century. The Castle was dismantled in the 18th Century, but its doocot, or dovecot remains. The lands were subsequently owned by the Dicks, a family of Edinburgh lawyers and merchants, and later the Dicksons. Corstorphine is now home to Edinburgh Zoo.

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Homes > Derelict buildings and excavation sites > Ruins

Homes > Residential buildings > Castles and palaces

Landscape > Land > Hills

Places > Edinburgh areas > Corstorphine

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Plants > Trees > Trees

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