St Mary's Loch & Dryhope Tower

This print depicts the ruins of Dryhope Tower and St. Mary's Loch, near Moffat in the Scottish Borders. Sir Walter Scott most famously describes St. Mary's Loch in Marmion (1808): 'Oft in my mind such thoughts awake, | By lone Saint Mary's silent lake; | Thou know'st it well,---nor fen, nor sedge, | Pollute the pure lake's crystal edge; | Abrupt and sheer, the mountains sink | At once upon the level brink; | And just a trace of silver sand | Marks where the water meets the land' (Introduction to Canto Second, lines 146-153).The surrounding landscape (Moffatdale) is also featured in Scott's novel Old Mortality (1816). The print is engraved by Joseph Swan after a painting by John Fleming.

University of Edinburgh, Corson Collection: Coll-1022/CCWS/ILL/P.1989