Ruthven Barracks 2 Foam Backed Print
Ruthven Barracks 2 Foam Backed Print.
This high-quality photographic print available in three paper options:
- Lustre - a stiff, middle-weight 270gsm paper with a slight surface sheen and bright white base. A multi award winning paper that’s easy to handle with a great colour gamut.
- Gloss - a stiff, middle-weight 270gsm paper with a highly reflective gloss finish and bright white base. Wide colour gamut and high D-MAX combine to create stunning results.
- Fine Art Matt - with its distinctive smooth and chalky feel, this popular 308gsm Hahnemühle paper boasts a lightly defined surface that’s ultra-matte with rich colours, lending each printed image a three-dimensional appearance and impressive pictorial depth.
The print is then mounted onto black, 2mm Foamex - a hyper compressed, exceptionally high quality PVC substrate which is moisture resistant, rigid, durable, and lightweight. An ideal print for displaying on an easel or with the supplied velcro strips.
Will be supplied without any border unless otherwise specified.
*If you choose optional lamination to protect your image this will be either a satin or gloss finish to match your chosen paper. Lamination is not recommended for the Fine Art paper option as it will mask the papers authentic texture.
The use of acid-free papers and archival inks ensures that your print will last a lifetime without fading or loss of color.
Ruthven Barracks, near Ruthven in Badenoch, Scotland, are the best preserved of the four barracks built in 1719 after the 1715 Jacobite rising.
The site dates back to 1229, when it was originally a castle used by the younger son of King Robert II of Scotland, demolished in 1451 and replaced with a second castle in 1459. This new castle was contested during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and was severely damaged during the Jacobite rising of 1689. Due to the continuing unrest in this period, it was decided by the British Government to build a series of fortified barracks and Ruthven Barracks were completed in 1721. The barracks could accommodate 120 troops and 28 horses.
Despite its capacity, there were only 12 soldiers to defend the barracks against 200 Jacobites in August 1745, but they successfully held the barracks, killing 2 Jacobites in the process. However, the following year they found themselves facing a much larger body of Jacobites under the command of Prince Charles Edward, which surrounded the barracks and fired cannon shot into it.
Following the Battle of Culloden in 1746, around 3000 Jacobites retreated to Fort Ruthven, but Bonnie Prince Charlie sent them all home, telling them their situation was hopeless. As they departed the Jacobites destroyed the barracks.
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