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Sketch showing view of the Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney

DP 418378

Description Sketch showing view of the Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney

Date 8/1801

Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number DP 418378

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of DC 53069

Scope and Content Drawing in sketchbook with drawings made during a tour of Orkney and Shetland in August 1801, likely by James Skene of Rubislaw. Wash Page 5: view of the west side of the Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, with a later domestic building attached to the W end of the S wing. A female figure is hanging out washing on a line against the W end of the N wing. Titled: 'Bishops Palace, Earls' Published in 'The history of the Orkney Islands', G Barry 1805, pl9, opp p 228.

Accession Number 1975/12

External Reference SAS 164

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2682252

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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