This charcoal cartoon is to be found, along with 5 or 6 others, on the walls of the boathouse attached to Dougrie Lodge, once the Duke of Montrose’s Shooting Lodge, on the west coast of Arran.
{Dougrie = An Dubh Gharadh or An Dubh Ghearraidh. "The black dyke" or "the black fertile land". Local people were nicknamed coilich dhubha, "black cocks".}
The artist and date is not known. but it is presumed to have been a guest of the Duke who was whiling away time, possibly during a rainstorm or keeping away from the midges.
