George Square

Category

Library Item

Item no

6181

Title

George Square

Description

A pencil sketch of the houses surrounding one corner of George Square in Edinburgh. The pavement is edged by street lamps and the central square has railings and trees growing within it.

Artist / maker

Geikie, Walter

Date

1830

Size

14 x 22.2 cm

Type

Pencil work

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

George Square in Edinburgh is situated to the south of the meadows and the west of Buccleuch Street. It was designed by James Brown and begun in 1766, immediately before James Craig's far more ambitious New Town development. Only the west side and a fragment of the north-east corner of the original square of terraced houses remains. On the north side the university's psychology department is housed in a late 19th century building, formerly George Watson's Ladies College. The rest has been replaced by large purpose built university buildings, constructed in the 1960's.

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