File:Edinburgh in the 17thC (detail) by Wenceslas Hollar (1670).jpg
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editDescriptionEdinburgh in the 17thC (detail) by Wenceslas Hollar (1670).jpg |
English: "The Citie of Edinburgh from the South" (detail) by Wenceslas Hollar (1670). Some artistic licence has been used. For example, no tenements are visible on the north side of the High Street where the slope descends steeply to the Nor Loch. Heriot's Hospital stands east (rather than west) of Potterow Port. This image is annotated on its description page at Commons. |
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Source | Scanned from an old book print |
Author | Wenceslas Hollar |
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Edinburgh Castle
Weigh House
Parliament House
St. Giles Kirk
Tron Kirk (before steeple added)
West Port
The Tounis College (on the site of Kirk o' Field)
This is the correct position for the College in relation to the Potterrow Port, but, architecturally, this building strongly resembles George Heriot's Hospital (rather than the college buildings) with a wrongly aligned Grey Friars Kirk to its immediate right. If so, both have been misplaced east of Potterrow, when their true position should be west of it where a steepled church is shown.
See the Gordon of Rothiemay map of 1647, commissioned by the Town Council, for the true positions of these buildings.
Potterrow Port
Grey Friars Kirk
But see note on The Tounis College.
Surgeons' Hall
Curryhill, the house of Sir James Skene, bought by the Incorporation of Surgeons in 1656
The Pleasance
Potterrow
St. Magdalene Chapel
Flodden Wall
Firth of Forth
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