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Bowhead House (Edinburgh, Scotland)

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Tenement previously at the top of the West Bow, Edinburgh. Demolished in the 1820s.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Lawn Market, from the site of the Weigh House, 1832

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/63(ii)
Scope and Contents

Lawn Market, from the site of the Weigh House. Line engraving. 1832. Ewbank, John Wilson, 1799?-1847, Artist; Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859, Engraver; Hamilton, John, Publisher.

Published in: Edinburgh Delineated (1832).

Note: At top left: '11'; At top right: '1st'; as 1825 edition, with amendments.

Dates: 1832
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Lawnmarket, 1841

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/61
Scope and Contents

Lawnmarket. Etching. 1841. Geikie, Walter, 1795-1837, Artist, Etcher; Stewart, John, Publisher.

Published in: Etchings, Illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery … by the Late Walter Geikie (1841).

Note: cf. Daniel Wilson Scrapbook [NMS] 17r(3).

Dates: 1841
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

The Weigh House from the Lawn-Market, 1817

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/60
Scope and Contents

The Weigh House from the Lawn-Market. Etching. 1817. Gibson, Patrick, 1782-1829, Artist, Etcher; Pillans, J., & Son, Publisher.

Published in: Select Views in Edinburgh (1818).

Note: Plate 5. cf. Daniel Wilson Scrapbook [NMS] 15(3).

Dates: 1817
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Weigh House, 1 July 1818

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/59(i)
Scope and Contents

Weigh House. Line engraving. 1 July 1818. Storer, James, 1771-1853, Artist, Publisher; Storer, H. S. (Henry Sargant), 1795-1837, Engraver, Publisher; Archibald Constable & Co., Publisher.

Publisher statement: Drawn, Engd. & Pubd. By J. & H. S. Storer, Chapel Street, Pentonville.

Published in: Views in Edinburgh and its Vicinity (1820), vol. 2.

Note: Pencil annotation: 'pulled down in 1822'.

Dates: 1 July 1818
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh