The Falls of Clyde, with figures

The Falls of Clyde, near Lanark, comprise four spectacular waterfalls, Bonnington Linn, Corra Linn, Dundaff, and Stonebyres Linn, as the River Clyde passes through a steep-sided gorge. The dramatic view attracted a number of poets and artists; in 1725 James Thomson recalls the falls in his poem cycle The Seasons, and they greatly influenced the work of the artist Jacob More; a few decades later on a visit to Clyde in 1802 William Wordsworth described the falls as '...the Clyde's most Majestic daughter'. Alexander Nasmyth is known to have painted at least three views of the Falls of Clyde, one for Lady Miller, and the others for Sir Alexander Ramsay and the Duchess of Buccleuch.