Sujet

Cawdor Castle, 1868. Creator: S Read.

Légende

Cawdor Castle, 1868. 'This old Scottish baronial residence, the family seat of the Earls of Cawdor, is pleasantly situated amidst woods and water, at the base of a far-stretching range of hills...If approached from [Nairn,] the traveller will pass over the battle-field of Culloden, at a point where the contest between Prince Charles Edward, the last of the Stuarts, and the Duke of Cumberland was hottest...Mary Queen of Scots stayed here on her return from Inverness, in 1562...It is a bold, castellated mansion of the fifteenth century...there are loopholes in the massive tower behind from which to harass the enemy and protect the entrance. The walls are nine feet thick, built of the stone on which the castle stands...A wing was added in 1510, and another at various times in the seventeenth century. It has never ceased to be occupied; but, fortunately, no attempt has been made to transform the castle into a modern-looking residence...The family of Cawdor - or Calder, as it used to be, and still often is, called - is of great antiquity. In the female line it goes back beyond that "most worthy Thane of Cawdor" familiar to the readers of "Macbeth".' From "Illustrated London News", 1868.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A34_200

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

12,7Mo (890,5Ko) / 21,2cm x 15,0cm / 2505 x 1768 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel exterior outdoors river building architecture arts Highlands art bridge bridges British geography castle highland Scotland structure cliff cliffs medieval fortifications fortification century Britain newspapers press print B&W tourist attraction engraved engraving cawdor castle Scottish Highlands Historic building 19th century black & white black and white B W mediaeval Middle Ages nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN baronial ILN outside newspaper Scottish baronial Cawdor S Read Read S Nairn 19th-century The Illustrated London News S. Read Read S.