SMAILHOLM TOWER SEPIA 75x75

Sir Walter Scott, 1^st Baronet
(° Edinburgh 1771 aug 15th – Abbotsford 1832 sept 21th),
was a Scottish lawyer, historical novelist, playwright and poet,
popular throughout much of the world during his time.
Famous titles include The Lady of the Lake, Ivanhoe, Rob Roy etc…

by

fine art photographer – pictorialist

“ RADAN ” ANDRE DEVLAEMINCK

( Sabam worldwide copyright )

Impressionist pictorial shoot from the gallery :

“ CAPTURING THE LIGHT OF SCOTLAND ”

One of a kind vintage

fine art sepia colour museum quality Lambda print

Nr 1206190118

image size: 75 x 75 cm
archival acid free matted: 100 x 100 cm
dark brown wooden frame: 104 x 104 cm
set date: 2012 june 19^th

The dramatic 15 th C peel tower of Smailholm, home to the “Pringles” and “Scotts”, prominent landmark, standing “Stark and upright like a warder” (Minstrelsy of The Scottish Border, 1802), atop a crag of Lady Hill near Sandyknowes Farm (between Kelso and St.Boswells).

Childhood home of Walter Scott, provided him inspiration to the tales and folklore of the Scottish Borders. Scott is burried at nearby Dryburgh Abbey. Scott took the Artist J.M.William Turner (1775-1851) to visit the tower in 1831. Turner sketched the dramatic setting for use as an illustration to Scott’s “Poetical Works”.

Pioneer of photography Fox Talbot (1800-1877) repeated Turner’s and Scott’s itinerary publishing “Sun Pictures in Scotland” (1845).

The tower is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument in the care of Historic Scotland. Awarded the maximum “five-stars” status from VisitScotland. It houses an exhibition of tapestries and costume dolls relating to Scott’s Minstrelsy of The Scottish Borders.