East End of L.Katrine [Loch Katrine]

Category

Library Item

Item no

24478

Title

East end of L.Katrine [Loch Katrine]

Description

A small boat sails from the slipway across the loch. Rowing boats are anchored beside a thatched boathouse or cottage on the wooded shore.

Artist / maker

Valentine, James

Date

1865

Size

24.2 x 18.6 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Loch Katrine is located within the Trossachs National Park, near Callender, in Stirlingshire. It is Scotland's eleventh largest loch, being is just over 8 miles in length down the centre of the Z shaped loch surface whilst the shoreline is about 22 miles in length.

Loch Katrine is famous as a location in Sir Walter Scott's work Lady of the Lake. Rob Roy, the Scots equivalent of Robin Hood, was born on the bank of Loch Katrine. The loch is also known through the paintings and sketches of Joseph Mallord William Turner, some of which pictures can be seen in the Tate Galleries in London.

The Loch is now currently owned by Scottish Water is used as one of the principle means of supplying water to the City of Glasgow and it's surrounding areas.

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Landscape > Land > Hills

Landscape > Water > Loch, lakes and ponds

Places > Scotland > Stirlingshire

Places > United Kingdom > Scotland

Transport > Water > Boats

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