Items in Lothian

Quadrangle of George Heriot’s Hospital

“The picture shows parts of the north and east sides of the Quadrangle. In the centre of the north side is the entrance doorway to the chapel, above which rises an oriel window combined with a half o [...]

Keywords: people, buildings, towers, windows

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-01

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The Apartments of Mary Queen of Scots in Holyrood Palace

The bedroom of a Queen! An ancient bed hung with faded crimson silk stands in Queen Mary’s bed-chamber, together with chairs and other furniture of a later date. Under the raised tapestry on the far [...]

Keywords: interiors, beds, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Holyrood Palace; Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2007-10-01

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Holyrood Palace From the Public Gardens Under Calton Hill

“Holyrood Palace stretches across the picture east and west, and is dominated by Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags. The dark turret at the west end of the nearest and north wing contains the private s [...]

Keywords: abbeys, manors, cities, houses, trees, mountains, birds, palaces, views, cityscapes, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-03

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John Knox’s House, High Street

“To the left of the square stone water-conduit, which occupies the centre of the picture, is seen the west front of this picturesque structure, and still farther to the left a “fore-stair” of a buildi [...]

Keywords: colour, buildings, houses, people, streets

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-05-31

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The Church of St. Giles from the Lawnmarket

“The status of the Duke of Buccleuch shows immediately under the tower of the Cathedral, backed by the modernised west end of the building. Farther down the High Street, to the east, is the Tron Churc [...]

Keywords: churches, streets, cities, cathedrals, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-03

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An Old Dalkeith Body

The darkness of the latter days came over my spirit like a vision before the prophet Isaiah; and I could see nothing in the years to come but beggary and starvation; myself a fallen-back old man, with [...]

Keywords: portraits, people

Places shown: Dalkeith; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2007-04-19

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Thomas Burlings, Elder

“I mind very well too, on the afternoon of the dividual same day, that my door-neighbour, Thomas Burlings, popped in; [...] It’s a wearyfu’ thing that whisky. I wish it could be banished to Botany Ba [...]

Keywords: people, beards, colour

Places shown: Dalkieth; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-08

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Mugo Glen

Mungo Glen was a boy apprenticed to Mansie Wauch (the fictional Scottish tailor) at the age of fourteen. “Fro the days in which he had lain in his cradle, [Mungo Glen] had been brought up in a remote [...]

Keywords: people, children, colour

Places shown: Dalkeith; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-08

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Frontispiece: Auld Reekie

Auld Reekie, or Edinburgh; in the distance the castle, but everywhere there is smoke.

Keywords: cityscapes, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2008-01-13

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