Leith Harbour, from the pier

Category

Library Item

Item no

35598

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume III, Leith Harbour, from the pier/The first international foursome

Artist / maker

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Engraver

T Higham

Date

1829

Type

Engraving; Oil painting; Press cutting; Reproduction

This picture, which appears in the 1829 book 'Modern Athens', focuses on the area of Leith still known as The Shore. Although the docks were extended out to sea in the nineteenth century The Shore was not yet separated from them and there was still much commercial traffic here, as well as passenger boats like the paddle steamer.

The other picture shows the Duke of Albany (later James VII) and John Paterson, a poor shoemaker (in play) versus two English nobles visiting Holyrood, who claimed golf was of English origin. The match was intended to prove which country should have the honour of being the home of golf. The two Englishmen were well beaten. John Paterson was given the stakes and built Golfer's Land in the Canongate.

Andrew Dickson, on the left of the picture, was the first recorded caddy.

From a painting by Allan Stewart.

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