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Sketch showing distant view of the Earl's Palace, Birsay, Orkney.

DP 418379

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 DP 418379

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of DC 53073

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.

Accession Number 1975/12

External Reference SAS 164

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2682253

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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