#solway firth

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Alba Rising

Scottish mountains rise from early morning mist over the Solway Firth.

[thesilicontribesman]

Looking Across The Solway Firth From Roman Milefortlet 21, Maryport, Cumbria

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The Martyr of the Solway

Artist: John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)

Date: ca. 1871

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Description

Margaret Wilson of Wigtownshire (1667-85) was a Covenanter. She was sentenced to death by drowning because she refused to acknowledge the church hierarchy. Bound to a stake on the shore of the Solway Firth she was engulfed by the oncoming tide. The Covenanters were a group of Scottish Presbyterians who were determined to resist the influence of the Crown and the established Church of England.

Millais’s wife Effie was brought up in Perthshire and may have encouraged his interest in Scottish history. The subject of the Solway Martyr was a popular one, and first appeared as an illustration for the periodical Once a Week, published in 1862.

[briefbestiary]

An odd photographed entity who appeared at a time that Templeton thought impossible. How strange.

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[proximaamidnightt]

• Slipknot - Solway Firth

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