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St Mary's Loch
Skene, James, 1804, Watercolour
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St Mary's Loch
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Title
St Mary's Loch
Description
This panoramic landscape shows hills surrounding a loch. Rays of sunlight burst through a gap in the clouds overhead. A ruined square tower sits on top of one of the slopes.
Artist / maker
Skene, James
Date
1804
Size
26 x 45 cm
Type
Watercolour
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
St Mary's Loch is the largest natural loch in the Scottish Borders. It is five kilometres by one kilometre. Local legend says that the loch has no bottom. Dryhope Tower is a sixteenth century stone pele tower that was once the property of the Scott family. It fell from use in the seventeenth century. The tower is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland.
The title on the watercolour is 'St Mary's Loch of the Lows, Dryhope Tower, Selkirkshire Sept 1804
Item is dated September 1804.
Annotation in bottom right corner of item reads 'St Mary's Loch of the Lows [Lowes] Dryhope Tower, Selkirkshire.'
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