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Port Dundas

Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection

Port Dundas

This watercolour of Port Dundas was painted c 1850 by William Simpson. It looks north-west towards a timber basin on the Forth and Clyde Canal, near Dawson Road. The canal is frozen over and men are skating by a boat that is held fast by the ice.

Reference: Mitchell Library 310408

Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council, Libraries Information and Learning

Keywords:
canals, Forth and Clyde Canal, ice, sailing boats, skaters, skating, timber basins, watercolours, winter scenes



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