Description
A note beneath the title of this watercolour reads, 'This rude sketch done from memory to show the effect is presented to Lieut. Hutton by his obliged humble servant, Buchan. Dryburgh Abbey Jan 1. 1789'. It is one of four views of Dryburgh Abbey contained in the Hutton Collection, two of which are the work of David Stewart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, who acquired the remains of the abbey in 1786. Dryburgh Abbey sits in a loop of the River Tweed a few hundred yards to the north of the village of St Boswells in Berwickshire. Hugh de Moreville, the Constable of Scotland, who invited the Premonstratensians, or Order of White Canons, to build and inhabit the abbey, founded it in 1150. Although the abbey was never particularly influential in Scottish religious or political life, English forces attacked it on several occasions, and it eventually fell into disuse after the Reformation of 1560.
Collective title: Hutton Drawings > [Volume 1] > Berwickshire
More details about the album and its contents can be found on the collection website.
Image Licence
CC BY 4.0
Image Credit
Courtesy of National Library of Scotland
Location
Dryburgh Abbey, Dryburgh, St Boswells, Melrose, Scotland
Country
Scotland
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
