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Entrance to Loch Kathrine [Katrine?]
Webster, Mary, 1830, Watercolour
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Entrance to Loch Kathrine [Katrine?]
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Title
Entrance to Loch Kathrine [Katrine?]
Artist / maker
Webster, Mary
Date
1830
Size
16.3 x 22.2 cm
Type
Watercolour
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.
In Victorian times the loch was enlarged and a pipeline installed as a means of supplying water to the City of Glasgow and its surrounding areas, something that it is still used for to this day under the ownership of Scottish Water. In enlarging the loch, the water level was raised and the Silver Strand was submerged and lost.
Loch Katrine is also famous for being the birthplace of Rob Roy, the Scots equivalent of Robin Hood, who 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.
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