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Sketch showing seascape of Mammie's Hole, Vaila.
DC 53081
Description Sketch showing seascape of Mammie's Hole, Vaila.
Date 8/1801
Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number DC 53081
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies DP 418387
Scope and Content Drawing in sketchbook made during a tour of Orkney and Shetland in August 1801, likely by James Skene of Rubislaw. Page 17: view titled 'Mammie's Hole in the Island of Valay. The sketch was taken by moonlight 19 August 1801'. Maamy's Hole is a gloup on the west coast of Vaila at NGR HU 222464, and this view is looking NW out to sea. Black and white chalk on blue paper.
Medium black & white chalk
Accession Number 1975/12
External Reference SAS 164
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