Scottish Holyrood Castle Palace 11x17 Photochrom Photo Print Photograph Picture

The2FunAdGuyz offer a new, high quality reproduction print of a magnificent 1890 photochrom (see detailed description below) of the Holyroodhouse (informally called Holyrood) Palace, Edinburgh Scotland. Holyroodhouse Palace has been the official residence of Scottish monarchs since the 16th century. Today, it is the official Scottish residence of Queen Elizabeth II on state occasions and she visits one week at the beginning of summer.

In this magnificent view, you see the massive grandeur of the building, the surrounding Holyrood Park. Surrounded in haze behind it is Arthur’s Stone, an old volcanic rock formation that frequently served as a strategic site for defenders of medieval Edinburgh. The castle’s site has contained a series of abbeys, homes and castles dating back to 1128, many of which were demolished to make way for other structures or destroyed during various periods of political upheaval. After one such upheaval during the late 17th Century, architect Sir William Bruce designed and Robert Mylne oversaw the reconstruction of the castle.

Caption: Holyroodhouse (Holyrood) Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1890

This a magnificent image, captured in freeze-frame some 120 years ago.

The hand coloring technique of this image used real paint, not water color, giving a deeper, more artistic look than later hand coloring techniques.

PHOTOCHROM: The photochrom process was a combination of photography and lithography that started in the 1800s and used until the development of true color photography in the 1930s. While the results can look more like a painting than a photograph, the images are striking. The photochrom (sometimes-spelled photochrome in America) system developed in Switzerland and then licensed to various companies in other countries. Detroit Publishing Company, Detroit, Michigan was the only company to license the process in the United States. The process first took black and white photographs and hand colored the resulting print. Then, using a special series of stone plates (minimum of four and up to 14 separate stones for a single print), prints could be reproduced in larger quantities. One of the reasons the results are so spectacular is that the pigments in the inks and ingredients to process the stones came from exotic locations around the world. The results—even more than a hundred years later—give us a unique, richly colored and very intense image.

ORIGINAL MEDIA: The Detroit Publishing Co. (original name Detroit Photo Graphic Company), Detroit, Michigan, originally produced the image used for this new print. During the last decade of the 1800s and early 1900s, they produced some of the finest photochrom images. Unfortunately, cheaper (and frequently lesser quality) printing methods spelled their demise.

PAPER QUALITY: This new print is on a highest quality, acid-free, 100-pound glossy premium text paper that allows for maximum color brilliance and fidelity for older images.

Image Size: 16.5 inches wide by 10.5 inches high.

Paper Size: 17 inches wide by 11 inches high. This allows for a small border around the image for matting and framing. When matted, this format is perfect for a standard 16-inch x 20-inch frame, a manageable size for a wide variety of decorating purposes.

AVAILABILITY: In Stock! – Ships Within 1 Business Day of cleared payment.

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