The Dhu Loch - Loch-Na-Gar - Capital Collections

Category

Library Item

Item no

13246

Title

The Dhu Loch - Loch-Na-Gar

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
"It is perhaps puzzling to the stranger to learn that Loch-na-gar is a mountain, 3768 feet above the level of the sea, though there is on the summit, and hemmed in by steep precipices, a small sheet of water that gives its name to the hill. But in the Dhu Loch, a little further in the heart of this mountainous district, we find one of the most striking scenes in Scotland.[...]The Dhu Loch, or black loch - a well deserved name - has its bed, as shown in our view, in steep and desperate perecipices of granite, and for sternness of outline is not excelled."

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