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Record Number: ELM0001

Related Work: Legend of Montrose, A

Illustration Title/Caption: The Pass to the Castle of Darnlinvarach

Keyword(s): Castles & Fortresses - Highlands - Journeys & Travellers

Artist: Samuel Bough

Engraver: William Forrest

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 17.2 x 26.3

Date: 1877

Source Text: Six Engravings in Illustration of A Legend of Montrose for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland ([Edinburgh: the Association], 1877)

Position in Source Text: [Plate 1]

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.RAPFAS.5

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Lord Menteith’s party (with Menteith and Dalgetty perceptible to the fore) on horseback travelling along a road towards Darnlinvarach Castle, itself on a hill partly obscured by trees. Accompanying quoted text: ‘A hill was now before . . . which we the usual offices’ [Ch. 4; EEWN 7b, 25.23-33].

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