Edinburgh from Craiglockhart Hill

Category

Library Item

Item no

726

Title

Edinburgh from Craiglockhart Hill

Description

This panoramic view of Edinburgh from Craiglockhart Hill looks over the city to the River Forth and the sea. Looking past the tree the centre, from left to right the castle, Calton Hill and Arthur's Seat can be seen.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1817

Size

15 x 39 cm.

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Craiglockhart is a southwestern suburb of Edinburgh which became part of the city in 1920. Craiglockhart Tower or Castle, now a ruin, dates from the 13th Century, and is associated with the Lockhart of Lee family. Napier University's Craiglockhart Campus is a grand 19th Century building which has been both a hydropathic institution and, during the First World War, a military hospital. The poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were both patients of the hospital at this time.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Castles and palaces

Landscape > Land > Hills

Landscape > Water > Seas

Places > Edinburgh areas > Craiglockhart

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Plants > Trees > Trees

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