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Taymouth Castle, Scotland Highlands ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT fine art print " FO Morris antique prints colored engravings circa 1870s ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT Title: TAYMOUTH CASTLE Approximate Image Size: 5 X 7 1/2 inches Approximate Overall Size: 8 X 10 1/2 inches Brilliant color print. Printed and engraved by by B. Fawcett, Driffield. This beautiful attractive colour plate originates from and is one of a Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britian and Ireland as presented by F. O. Morris. A greater proportion of the drawings which originated from the publication were by Alexander F. Lydon, and printed from coloured wood-blocks using the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett. Published by William Mackenzie, Ludgate Hill, Edinburgh and Dublin CONDITION: Mild smudges on marginal area only, otherwise in Very Good Condition. The colors are brilliant, rich and bright. Reverse side is blank and printed on heavier quality paper. Excerpt from the old descriptive: TAYMOUTH CASTLE, NEAR ABERFELDY PERTHSHIRE.-EARL OF BREADALBANE. This magnificent seat may well carry us back in thought to the feudal times, and even in them it would have been conspicuous for size, grandeur, and beauty. The estate is no less than about a hundred miles long, and the castle is situated moreover in one of the most delightful valleys for which the Highlands of Scotland are so deservedly famous. So regal a residence deserves a royal description, and the following lines by Queen Victoria are from Her Majesty's Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands:- The drive was quite beautiful all the way to Taymouth. The two highest hills of the range on each side are to the right,.as you go on after leaving Dunkeld) Craig-y-Barns and to the left, immediately above Dankeld) Craigoinean. The Tay winds along beautifully, and the hills are richly wooded. Taymouth lies in a valley surrounded by very high, wooded hills it is most beautiful. The house is a kind of castle, built of granite. The coup d' oeil was indescribable. There were a number of Lord Breadalbane's Highlanders, all in the Campbell tartan, drawn up in front of the house, with Lord Breadalbane himself in a Highland dress at their head, a few of Sir Weil Menzies' men (in the Menzies red and white tartan,) a number of pipers playing, and a company of the 92nd. Highlanders, also in kilts. The firing of the guns, the cheering of the great crowd, the picturesqueness of the dresses,the beauty of the surrounding country, with its rich back-ground of wooded bills, altogether formed one of the finest scenes imaginable. It seemed as if a great chieftain in olden feudal times was receiving his sovereign. It was princely and romantic. Lord and Lady Breadalbane took us up stairs, the hall and stairs being lined with Highlanders. The Gothic staircase is of stone and very fine; the whole of the house is newly and exquisitely furnished. The drawing-room, especially, is splendid. Thence you go into a passage and a library; which adjoins our private apartments. The dining-room is a fine room in Gothic style, and has never been dined in till this day. Our apartments also are inhabited for the first time. The deer park is very extensive, and is adorned with abundance of stately timber, there is an avenue of lime trees nearly a mile long. Here was formerly an ancient castle, called Ballock, but only some remains of it are now extant. The modern mansion was begun about the beginning of the present century. It stands upon the southern bank of the Tay, in a semicircular lawn about a mile below the termination of the lake, embosomed by woods that well-nigh seem interminable. It consists of a large quadrangle, with a circular tower at each corner, a lofty lantern tower in the centre, and an eastern wing one hundred and eight feet long, in which are comprised the offices. An arched cloister goes round the exterior on three sides, the tracery of which is exceedingly light and beautiful. The principal. N° de ref. del artículo 6066
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