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Landscape, Nature and Architecture

Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him

      ATTRIBUTED TO? WILSON & HAY (ACTIVE 1853-55)

      View from the Moss House on Craig Gowan, looking towards Abergeldie

      Sep 1854

      Salted paper print | 16.3 x 21.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2140232

      Photograph of a view taken from the high vantage point of Craig Gowan and looking towards Abergeldie, with trees on either side. Hills in the background.

      This photograph was reproduced as a wood cut by James Cooper to illustrate the journal entries of Queen Victoria written during her stays in Scotland and published under the title Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands

      • Creator(s)

        Attributed to? Wilson & Hay (active 1853-55) (photographer)

      • 16.3 x 21.2 cm (image)

        33.9 x 46.1 cm (page dimensions)

      • Windsor Castle Etc.

      • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

      • Subject(s)
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Great Britain
              • Scotland
                • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                  • Balmoral Castle [Aberdeenshire]
                  • Abergeldie [Aberdeenshire]
                  • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
                    • Craig Gowan
        • Geography
          • Physiography
            • Hills
        • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
          • Botany
            • Systematic botany
              • Trees
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • photographs
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