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Fast Castle, Berwickshire |
This 19th century engraving shows Fast Castle – one of the sites in the Borders associated with the writings of Sir Walter Scott.
He wrote of it: 'Imagination can scarce form a scene more striking, yet more appalling, than this rugged and ruinous stronghold... overhanging the raging ocean.'
Patrick Nasmyth produced at least 11 paintings and drawings of the castle for Scott's Provincial Antiquities. Fast Castle is also thought to have been Scott's inspiration for the fictional stronghold of Wolf's Craig in The Bride of Lammermoor (1819). |
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