The Carvings and Inscriptions on the Kirkyard Monuments of the Scottish Lowlands; particularly in Perth, Fife, Angus, Mearns, and Lothian

The Churchyard Monuments of the Lowlands, in contrast with those of the Western Highlands of Scotland, have attracted but little attention. The beauty and antiquity of the latter caused them to be illustrated with a fulness, accuracy, and artistic skill that could not be surpassed, 1 but there was little to attract the pencil of a Drummond in the comparatively homely designs on the low-country tombstones, while their more recent date seemed almost to remove them from the field of antiquity, and thus it has happened that, were it not for a few incidental drawings here and there, and for the occasional illustrations bearing on 1 Sculptured Monuments in lona and the Western Highlands.