Castle Douglas from Dunmuir Scotland – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Castle Douglas from Dunmuir Scotland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/41/41f9bf5fe07b-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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This historic print of Castle Douglas from Dunmuir Scotland brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Castle Douglas from Dunmuir Scotland
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Castle Douglas, a market town in the Galloway region of southwest Scotland, is the subject here, shown from a vantage the title identifies as Dunmuir. The image was made by the photochrom process, in which several lithographic stones printed successive layers of color over a photographic base, giving the scene the soft, painterly tones associated with the method. The Detroit Publishing Company sold such views in the United States, and this one appears in its 1905 catalog as print number 13046. Its record dates it to roughly the 1890s, a period when rural Scottish towns were drawing growing numbers of travelers and when photochrom views were a popular way to see distant places at home.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 13046. Views of landscape and architecture in Scotland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,598 × 2,708 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 535_Castle_Douglas_from_Dun_1890.tif-07544u |
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