Description
This is an undated engraving of Dunglass Castle, Dunbartonshire. A note below the title, says the artist is a 'Mr Woodyer', and that he based the engraving on a drawing by 'Mr Sandby'. This is probably a reference to Paul Sandby (1731-1809). He was an English topographical draughtsman whose work remains highly collectable. Dunglass Castle stands on a craggy promontory overlooking the River Clyde, near its confluence with the Leven in Dunbartonshire; the original castle, of which little remains, dated from around 1380, and was owned by the Colquhoun family. A later castle, built on the same site, was, for a time, owned by the family of Margaret Macdonald, the artist wife of Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Another Dunglass Castle also once existed in Scotland, near the hamlet of the same name in East Lothian, but disappeared around 1640.
Additional Makers: subject of text- Paul Sandby
Collective title: Hutton Drawings > [Volume 1] > Dunbartonshire
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
Dunglass Castle, Dunglass, Cockburnspath, Scotland
Country
Scotland
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
