Original hand coloured steel engraving from 1840. Artist : W H Bartlett and engraver: S Bradshaw Image size: 7*4.75 ins. Since these antique prints are over 150 years old they may have minor imperfections.
An excerpt from the original description:
MACDUFF, which in the course of a century has emerged from its humble origin of a few fishermen's huts into a town and harbour of no little importance on this coast, Is now an object of increasing Interest to all who delight in tracing the gradual rise and progress of national prosperity. In tlic ramifications of our trade and commerce. The town is situated about a mile and a half to the east of Banff; and in the grouping of its buildings presents an aspect sufficiently romantic to arrest tlie attention of every stranger who has a taste for the picturesque. The Earl of Fife, on whose property it is built, has greatly contributed to its advancement in all that regards tlic comfort of the inhabitants, and tlie improvement of its harbour, which is now considered one of the best in the Moray Frith. At the instance of tills patriotic nobleman, Maeduff was created a burgh of barony by his Majesty George III.; and from that time large sums of money have been annually expended in improving the town, encouraging Industry, and extending the harbour. The import and export traffic of this port continues on the increase, and employs numerous vessels tliat carry on a regular trade with London and the ports of the Baltic. The exports consist chiefly of corn, salmon, cod-fish, and granite, for which the quarries of this coast have been so long known and appreciated.
