Monument to James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, Loch of the Lowes

Created by Andrew Currie

Date: 1860
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: sculpture

Material: stone - sandstone

Notes: The Builder, 6 August 1859 (p. 527) reported that Dr. Rogers of Stirling had visited Ettrick and Yarrow with the sculptor Andrew Currie to look out a site for the proposed monument. It was inaugurated before 14 July 1860, according to the The Builder (p. 451) of that date, which also gives a detailed description. The stone for the monument was provided by the Duke of Buccleugh from his quarry at Whitahill, near Langholm

Citing this record

'Monument to James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, Loch of the Lowes', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib5_1247661369, accessed 29 May 2020]