Alice Boyd Coastal landscape by moonlight

Signed with monogram l.r., watercolour over traces of pencil with scratching out, touches of bodycolour and white

25 x 35 cm.; 9 7/8 x 13 ¾ inches

This romantic landscape is probably a view near Penkill Castle, a few miles northeast of Girvan in south Ayrshire which the artist inherited in 1865. She and her lover William Bell Scott spent their summers at Penkill, the castle perched on a promontory overlooking Penwhapple burn. The nearby Firth of Clyde was visible from the castle battlements.