Loch Doon

Category

Library Item

Item no

13224

Title

Loch Doon

Artist / maker

Lydon, A. F.

Date

1882

Size

10.2 x 15.3 cm

Type

Engraving

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The accompanying text, taken from the volume 'Scottish Loch Scenery' by Thomas A. Croal, begins as follows
"Although intimately associated with those scenes to which Burns so plaintively puts the question
'Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?'
and although it 'pours a' it floods' under the ancient brig where Tam O'Shanter had such a narrow escape, Loch Doon is far from the immediate land of Burns, lying remote in a wild and solitary mountain region. The loch is, however, within four miles of Dalmellington station, and as there is excellent fishing, coaches frequently carry the disciples of Walton, as well as searchers after the picturesque, to this quiet, outlying place. Loch Doon is eight miles in length, and irregular in form, the lower limb of the Loch, from which the river Doon issues, lying to the right as shown in our view. The hills on the south are in the Stewartry of Kirkudbright, and the loch, forming, over its whole length, the boundary between that county and Ayrshire, is surrounded by pastoral mountains."

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