Strathaven

Category

Library Item

Item no

24818

Title

Strathaven

Description

This image shows Strathaven Castle in South Lanarkshire.

Artist / maker

De Cardonnel, Adam

Date

1788

Size

7.0 x 9.0 cm

Type

Etching

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The British 19th century engraver and archaeologist Adam de Cardonnel was an educated man who practiced for a short while as a surgeon however his family's wealth gave him the leisure to indulge his interest in antiquities and numismatics. At the end of 1780 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland where he also served as curator from 1782 to 1784. Cardonnel later went on to produce work titled as 'Numismata Scotiae' which was published in Edinburgh in 1786 and 'Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland' which was published in London in 1788. Soon after this Adam De Cardonnel took over his cousin - Hilton Lawson's - estates in Chirton and Cramlington in Northumberland where he then served as sheriff for the county in 1796 and became knows as 'Adam De Cardonnel-Lawson'. Cardonnel spent his last days in Bath and after dying at age 73 he was buried at Cramlington in June 1820.

Built on a rocky, partly artificial mound, Strathaven Castle was defended to the east, south and west by the steep banks of the Powmillon Burn. Strathaven Castle once comprised a three-storey rectangular block with a four-storey round tower at the north-west corner and a small projecting wing at the south-east. The north wall and the tower remain almost complete.

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