St Mary's Loch

Category

Library Item

Item no

14774

Title

St Mary's Loch

Description

This panoramic landscape shows hills surrounding a loch. Rays of sunlight burst through a gap in the clouds overhead. A ruined square tower sits on top of one of the slopes.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1804

Size

26 x 45 cm

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

St Mary's Loch is the largest natural loch in the Scottish Borders. It is five kilometres by one kilometre. Local legend says that the loch has no bottom. Dryhope Tower is a sixteenth century stone pele tower that was once the property of the Scott family. It fell from use in the seventeenth century. The tower is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland.

The title on the watercolour is 'St Mary's Loch of the Lows, Dryhope Tower, Selkirkshire Sept 1804

Item is dated September 1804.

Annotation in bottom right corner of item reads 'St Mary's Loch of the Lows [Lowes] Dryhope Tower, Selkirkshire.'

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Homes > Derelict buildings and excavation sites > Disrepair (homes)

Homes > Residential buildings > Towers

Landscape > Land > Hills

Landscape > Water > Loch, lakes and ponds

Places > Scotland > Borders