Callendar House, Falkirk, Scotland mb-code CSM107112 'Sur la Scene'

'Sur la Scene'

Carter Lane

The first sighting of a kangaroo (or wallaby) by Lieutenant James Cook and the sailors of the Endeavour expedition

Plate 10 from Views in Egypt by Luigi Mayer

Inscribed: 'IOHANNES HARRIS SAC

Callendar House, Falkirk, Scotland mb-code CSM107112 'Sur la Scene'Callendar House, Falkirk, Scotland, 1924 1926. Callendar House as it appears today dates from the late 18th century. The estate, previously the home of the Earls of Callendar, was acquired in 1783 by a wealthy Aberdeen coppersmith named William Forbes, who set about transforming the house into a building of the style of a French chateau. A photo from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter Hutchinson, Volume 4, 1924 1926.