Sketch showing distant view of the Earl's Palace, Birsay, Orkney.
DC 53073
Description Sketch showing distant view of the Earl's Palace, Birsay, Orkney.
Date 8/1801
Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number DC 53073
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies DP 418379
Scope and Content Drawing in sketchbook made during a tour of Orkney and Shetland in August 1801, likely by James Skene of Rubislaw. Page 9: Titled 'Birsa Seat of the Earls of Orkney’. The view is from the Point of Buckquoy looking SE across the Bay of Birsay, with sailing boats and a rowing boat in the Bay, and a male figure with a shotgun and a retriever dog hunting duck in the foreground. There is smoke rising from two places on the far shore, probably from kelp-burning. Engraving published in 'The history of the Orkney Islands', G Barry 1805, pl5, opp p 32.
Medium wash
Accession Number 1975/12
External Reference SAS 164
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