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Corstorphine
Skene, James, 1827, Watercolour
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Title
Corstorphine
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Groups of people stand inside a large building in Corstorphine, Edinburgh. To the back of the picture a staircase leads up to a doorway on the first floor beneath a high arch. Two women are sitting on a bench beneath the stairs. In front of them stand two women and a man talking. Another group of people enters through a doorway by an alcove in a wall, which is decorated with carved arches.
Artist / maker
Skene, James
Date
1827
Size
23 x 23 cm.
Type
Watercolour
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
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. Corsorphine is now home to Edinburgh Zoo.
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