Colzean Castle (Ayreshire.)

This is a genuine vintage engraving titled, "Colzean Castle. (Ayreshire.) " It is in excellent condition and was engraved from an original drawing by William Bartlett, a renowned 19th century illustrator. This was published in 1840. There is a generous white margin on all sides of the engraving. It is printed on a high quality, heavy stock paper which is blank on the reverse side. This print has been cleaned using proper conservation techniques and is free of age toning and foxing spots.
Dimensions of the engraved area in inches, minus margins, approx. 5 by 7 inches, and the overall size is approx. 8 by 11 inches. This is not a reproduction. This is a steel engraving over 160 years old in excellent condition and guaranteed to be as described.

Price $35  Item #6918

Kirkoswald, a village and a coast parish in Carrick district, Ayrshire. The village, standing 332 feet above sea-level, is 1¾ mile from the coast, and 4 miles WSW of Maybole, under which it has a post office. An old and picturesque place, with a good inn, it was here that Burns spent his seventeenth summer in the study of mensuration, making pretty good progress therein, though not so great as in the knowledge of mankind, in ` scenes of swaggering riot and roaring dissipation.' In the burying-ground are the graves of his ` Tam O, Shanter ' and ` Souter Johnnie ' (Douglas Graham and John Davidson), as also of his grand and great-grand parents, the Brouns, the restoration of whose tombstone was inaugurated on 3 Aug. 1883. Pop. (1871)

The parish, containing also Maidens village, included, till 1652, a considerable tract on the NW side of Girvan Water, now belonging to Girvan and Dailly. It is bounded NE and E by Maybole, SE by Dailly, S by Dailly and Girvan, and W and NW by the Firth of Clyde. Its utmost length, from W by N to E by S, is 7 1/8 miles; its utmost breadth, from NNE to SSW, is 6 1/8 miles; and its area is 15,444 acres, of which 503¾ are foreshore and 79 ¼ water. The coast-line, 8 ¼ miles long, exhibits prominent features at Colzean Castle and Turnberry Point, but elsewhere is chiefly a sandy beach, with verdure down to the water-mark.

An exquisite antique engraving!