Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9297
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“Turusachan....Isle of Lewis.”
Date
1867
Creator
Henry James (1803 - 1877, British) , Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey, Surveyor
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Dimensions
height (print): 252mm
width (print): 353mm
width (print): 353mm
Subject
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Description
Landscape study of the Callinish Stones, an ancient monument stone circle on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Two children, one carrying a long staff, appear in the foreground.
Captioned below: “TURUSACHAN, CALLERNISH. OR THE PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE ON THE BLEAK HEADLAND. IN THE ISLE OF LEWIS. Zincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office Southampton. 1867. Drawn by Colonel Sir Henry James R.E.:1866. Copied in Chalk by 2nd Corporal Goodwin R.E.”
Unnumbered plate [13] from Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland, by Colonel Sir Henry James. (Southampton, Ordnance Survey, 1867).
Captioned below: “TURUSACHAN, CALLERNISH. OR THE PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE ON THE BLEAK HEADLAND. IN THE ISLE OF LEWIS. Zincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office Southampton. 1867. Drawn by Colonel Sir Henry James R.E.:1866. Copied in Chalk by 2nd Corporal Goodwin R.E.”
Unnumbered plate [13] from Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland, by Colonel Sir Henry James. (Southampton, Ordnance Survey, 1867).
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