Depicting Hoddom Castle and Sherborne Lodge in Dorset Pen, Ink and Body Colour on Paper English, c.1770
13.25" high x 16.5" wide (framed)
Ref: 10634
Hoddom Castle is located in South West Scotland and began life as a fortified tower house, constructed around the mid-1500s but believed to incorporate earlier work from the previous century. Described as one of the strongest castles in the Borders, it formed part of a line of defensive structures across the Hoddom - the C16 stair tower region built by Sir John Maxwell.
Sherborne was built by Sir Walter Raleigh beginning in 1594. The story goes that Raleigh was journeying to Plymouth when he saw the Sherborne estate, which was then only a 12th-century hunting lodge in a deer park owned by the church. He admired Sherborne so much that Queen Elizabeth I "persuaded" the church to grant the estate to the crown on a 99-year lease, which she promptly made over to her favourite, Raleigh. Raleigh built a new house around the core of the old hunting lodge (now the "old castle"). He called the four-story rectangular house Sherborne Lodge.
