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Peterhead from Boddam c 1830
Original hand coloured steel engraving form around 1830. Artists : W H Bartlett and engraver: R Brandard. Image size: 7*4.75 ins. Since these antique prints are over 150 years old they may have minor imperfections. Text from the original Publication: PETERHEAD, like the neighboring ports already noticed, has rapidly increased, within the last twenty years, in all those means which facilitate and secure the advantages of trade and commerce. The point of land on which the town is built, is the most easterly of the mainland of Scotland. It forms the north-cast side of a bay, and is connected with the country, on the north-west, by an isthmus eight hundred yards in breadth. On Keith-Inch, so named after the Earl Marischal, are many elegant and substantially built houses; and on its south side is an old Castle, erected in the sixteenth century by George, Earl Marischal, after the model of one which he had seen in Denmark. Down to the close of the sixteenth century, Peterhead was only a small fishing village, and the stranger who now passes through its populous streets and busy harbours, will readily perceive how much has been accomplished in the interval. The Lighthouse, which stands on the Buchan-ness, at the extremity of the southern bay, is of the utmost importance, both as regards the interests of the general trade of the port, and the prosecution of the herring-fishery, which, is carried on with great success. The neighborhood of Peterhead is renowned for its granite, of a reddish color, and closely resembling that on the west bank of the Lago Maggiore in Italy. The beautiful pillars in the British Museum, and the Duke of York's column in Waterloo-place, are specimens of it; and materials for many of our public buildings, such as the docks at Sheerness, have also been furnished from the quarries of Peterhead.
Our Price: £45.00
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