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    Group of Balmoral keepers

    c.1866

    Albumen print | 26.3 x 34.4 cm (page dimensions) | RCIN 2160424

    Photograph of a full length group portrait of keepers in Balmoral. The portrait features, from left to right, A Campbell, William Dorran, unknown, Wm Thomson, Charles Coutts, Charles Duncan, Alex Grant, J Coutts, Donald Stewart, John Grant, Alex Thomson, A MacDonald, J MacKenzie, Peter Robertson, Wm Yeoman, J Morgan, J Farquarson and J Brown. The group are posed outside, near what appears to be a lake.

    • Creator(s)

      Unknown Person (photographer)

    • 26.3 x 34.4 cm (page dimensions)

      15.1 x 20.2 cm (image)

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • Scotland
              • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
      • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
        • Botany
          • Systematic botany
            • Flowering plants
              • Heather
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