A print from a disbound book of Scotland published 1900. Blank on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 8.75" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1900 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
CAWDOR CASTLE.
This grey pile, a residence of the Earl of Cawdor, is about five miles from Nairn. It is reached by a drawbridge across the moat, and possesses a great square tower with turrets at the corners in the Scottish style. Most of it dates from the fifteenth century, but its old tapestry, and many secret doors and passages, give it an air of greater antiquity. It is one of the three places affirmed by tradition as the scene of the murder of King Duncan in 1040 by Macbeth, Thane of Cawdor: and another very ancient tradition states that the builder of the first tower was told by a hermit to do so on the spot wheresoever should lie down his ass laden with gold. This the. animal did under a hawthorn tree, and it is a fact that an old tree is carefully vaulted round in the basement of the tower.