The Forth: Lake of Menteith from Inchmahome Priory

The Forth: Lake of Menteith from Inchmahome Priory

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-285

Artist: Slocombe, Edward

Date: 1880 (Approx.)

State: 1/1

Size: 23.3 x 17.8 cm

Medium: Etching

Details Etching. All the Slocombe’s etchings are brown ink on wove, or possibly India, paper.The mount states all 12 belong to the 12 part series titled Rivers of the East Coast. Only 200 sets were published.

Signed artist’s proof; bottom left in graphite ‘Edward Slocombe’.
Description The Lake of Menteith joins both the Tieth and Forth rivers in the Carse of Stirling. Mary, Queen of Scots, used the priory as a refuge after the Battle of Pinkie in 1547. The prior itself was an Augustan Monastery dating from 1238.
References
  1. Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979
  2. Kenneth M. Guichard, British Etchers 1850-1940. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1977

 

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