The old jail 

Bone, Muirhead, Sir, 1876-1953 · 1899

Across the back stretches a long, low building of massive construction with few windows ; it is the back of the Justiciary Court. At a higher elevation to the left stand houses, one of which has a tower of Italian appearance beside its chimney. Lower down on the same side is a long shed, with the name (S)teven & Son, at the end on which the light falls. A strong shadow from the roof is cast by the declining sun upon the wall of the jail. In the foreground all is desolation and squalor ; under a high wall on the left are rag-pickers, and near a fence, more distinctly lighted, on the opposite side groups of people are seen waiting idly or raking the rubbish ; near the middle of the jail are a horse and cart. The dry point work in the upper part of the sky partly burnished out. Some faint lines have been added just to left of the flagstaff over the middle of the jail, and on the right between the end of the jail and the edge of the plate.