Bishopton sycamore maple in Scotland. On the reverse: In Renfrewshire, opposite Dumbarton Rock, it is 19 feet in circumference (taken from Sylva Britannia), the wing decorated in gold with a frieze of leafy branches also legended.
Border: Maple.

The subject was taken from “Sylva Britannica, or Portraits of Forest Trees” by Joseph George Strutt (1784–1867) that pictures 50 special British trees in etchings and words.

THE SYCAMORE AT BISHOPTON, in Renfrewshire, is the property of Sir John Maxwell, Bart. It is a stately spreading tree, twenty feet in circumference at the ground, about sixty feet in height, and contains seven hundred and twenty feet of solid timber. It stands on the banks of the Clyde, on the opposite side of which the insulated rock of Dumbarton rises in solitary majesty, crowned with its strong fortress, of little use in ” these weak piping times of peace,” but once deemed the ” Key of Scotland ;” and still exciting a melancholy interest as the place where Wallace, that hero dear alike to the sober page of history, and the wilder graces of tradition, was delivered up to his enemies by the treachery of a pretended friend.