Shipwreck off Tantallon Castle, Scotland
Shipwreck off Tantallon Castle, Scotland
Shipwreck off Tantallon Castle, ScotlandSigned lower left: EDuncan 1848Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out22.3 by 31 cm., 8 ¾ by 12 in.Provenance:Anonymous sale, Bonham's Oxford, 28th November 2012, lot 126Tantallon castle was one of the last great castles of Scotland built in the mid 14th Century by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas. It was besieged several times in its history but after the damage caused by Oliver Cromwell's army, it was abandoned.){kind=link}
Edward Duncan, R.W.S. (1803-1882)
Shipwreck off Tantallon Castle, Scotland
Signed lower left: EDuncan 1848
Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and scratching out
22.3 by 31 cm., 8 ¾ by 12 in.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Bonham's Oxford, 28th November 2012, lot 126
Tantallon castle was one of the last great castles of Scotland built in the mid 14th Century by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas. It was besieged several times in its history but after the damage caused by Oliver Cromwell's army, it was abandoned.