Sweetheart Abbey Dumfries Scotland – Antique Photo Print
![Sweetheart Abbey Dumfries Scotland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/38/3800af0bc31a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Sweetheart Abbey Dumfries Scotland. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Sweetheart Abbey Dumfries Scotland
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Sweetheart Abbey, near Dumfries in southwest Scotland, takes its name from Devorguilla of Galloway, who founded the Cistercian abbey in 1273 and had her embalmed heart buried there after her death in 1290. This color view is a photochrom, a process that used photographs transferred to multiple lithographic stones, and the Detroit Publishing Co. sold such prints in America in the early 1900s. The image shows the red sandstone ruins as tourists of the late Victorian era would have seen them, a record of both the abbey and the popular taste for picturesque Scottish scenery.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 13120. Views of landscape and architecture in Scotland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,646 × 2,747 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4205_Sweetheart_Abbey_Dumfri_1890.tif-07572u |
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