Manse of Inverarity

Category

Library Item

Item no

13081

Title

Manse of Inverarity

Artist / maker

Webster, Mary

Date

1837

Size

23.4 x 30.5 cm

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Annotation below painting reads 'Sketched from nature 26th September 1837'.

Inverarity is a village in Angus, Scotland, UK, on the A90, 6 miles from Forfar, and 7 miles from Dundee.The nearest villages are Gateside, Invereighty, Kincaldrum and Gallowfauld. Inverarity used to be in the old county of Forfarshire. Its name means "creek of Arity".

Mary Webster, the artist, was born in 1794 to John Webster, Minister of the Parish Church at Inverarity. The family lived in Inverarity, a village seven miles north of Dundee until her father died in 1807 and they moved to live with Mary's mother's family in Carmyllie.
Described as the 'Manse', this may be Mary's childhood home.

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