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Newark TowerThe Scott Country (1920)

(Frontispiece) Newark Tower

External link to Castles in Scotland page

Keywords: castles, trees, water, sunsets, towers, colour

Places shown: Newark; Fife; Scotland

Added: 2004-02-27

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Frontispiece: Auld ReekieIn Search of Scotland (1929)

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

Keywords: cityscapes, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2008-01-12

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Edinburgh from Calton HillNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881)

Edinburgh von Calton Hill aus gesehen

This is a view of Edinburgh fromCalton Hill, but predates a lot of more recent building. Edinburgh Castle is in the far background.

Keywords: cityscapes, views, castles, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2020-03-17

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Front Cover, The Scott CountryThe Scott Country (1920)

My copy has a repair to a tear on the dust jacket. The picture on the cover is Branxholm Tower, reproduced slightly better inside the book.

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: Hawick; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-09-10

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Frontispiece: The Kirk collectionReminiscences of Scottish Life and Character (1911)

The Kirk Collection, From a water-colour drawing by Henry W. Kerr, A.R.S.A., R.S.W. An elder of the church leans over the side ot a pew with a wooden “ladle” for the church collection of money; a man [...]

Keywords: people, interiors, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2009-02-07

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46.—Kilmarth Rocks, as seen from the South East.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“But there are some remains which have the appearance of works of art, which are, probably, nothing but irregular products of nature,—masses of stone thrown on a plane surface by some great convulsion [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-07-28

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Jedburgh AbbeyIn Search of Scotland (1929)

So these abbeys—Kelso, Jedburgh, Dryburgh, and Melrose—as close together as the abbeys of Yorkshire, preached the gospel of love in a land of hate. They were situated gallantly in the front line like [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, norman architecture, colour

Places shown: Jedburgh; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2008-01-13

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166.—Two dogs in ScotlandNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Two dogs in the Scottish highlands, with a crofter’s cottage in the background. The dogs are border collies, I think: sheepdogs.

Keywords: dogs, hills, cottages, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2011-04-09

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Holyrood Palace From the Public Gardens Under Calton HillEdinburgh (1912)

“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: 2005-07-21

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Taymouth CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

TAYMOUTH CASTLE Near Aberfeldy, Perthshire,—Marquis of Breadalbane. This magnificent seat may well carry us back in thought to the feudal times, and even in them it would have been conspicuous for siz [...]

Keywords: stately homes, castles, mountains, forests, trees, windows, towers, battlements, lawns, turrets, manors, colour

Places shown: Kenmore; Perthshire; Scotland

Added: 2024-12-23

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Kelso: The River Tweed and Abbey RuinsThe Scott Country (1920)

Kelso is a town in the Borders; the abbey was mostly destroyed at the English Reformation.“Walter Scott as from his childhood, at Sandyknowe and Kelso, familiar with Border scenes, as well steeped in [...]

Keywords: bridges, abbeys, ruins, towers, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-02-27

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The Apartments of Mary Queen of Scots in Holyrood PalaceEdinburgh (1912)

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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Tyninghame on the TyneThe Leisure Hour (1904)

“Tyninghame on the Tyne (Residence of the Earl of Haddington) “The glory of Tyninghame is its gardens and trees. Since the days of the sixth Earl of Haddington, the Lords of Tyninghame, the charming [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Tyninghame; East Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-07-23

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The Church of St. Giles from the LawnmarketEdinburgh (1912)

“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, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-03

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The Sanctuary, National War Shrine, EdinburghIn Search of Scotland (1929)

The Shrine is the highest building in Edinburgh. It rises from virgin rock. Its walls spring from jagged ledges. In shape it is a sanctuary facing north with an east and west transept. [...] The ke [...]

Keywords: war memorials, shrines, interiors, arches, gothic architecture, stonework, masonry, columns, gates, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2014-08-22

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Scotland.Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

From “An overland journey to the Great Eghibition of 1851” By Richard Doyle. Published for the Brothers Dalziel by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. “We gave Doyle a commission to do a Panorama of an Overland [...]

Keywords: people, musical instruments, sports, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-01-08

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John Knox’s House, High StreetEdinburgh (1912)

“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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Stirling CastleIn Search of Scotland (1929)

I paused on a hill and looked down on the plain of Stirling. It was early evening and the mists were rising. The rock on which the Castle stands was blue-black against the grey of the fields, the mig [...]

Keywords: castles, views, colour

Places shown: Stirling; Storling; Scotland

Added: 2008-08-02

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The ShepherdReminiscences of Scottish Life and Character (1911)

The Shepherd, From a water-colour drawing by Henry W. Kerr, A.R.S.A., R.S.W. The shepherd here is an older man pictured outdoors wearing a traditional Scottish costume and leaning on his wooden crook. [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, costumes, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2009-02-07

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Quadrangle of George Heriot’s HospitalEdinburgh (1912)

“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, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-01

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