Children's albums
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Loch-Na-Gar
c. 1862Albumen print | 11.1 x 17.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2160363
Photograph of a man wearing a kilt and a cap and seated in right side profile on a heather covered hillside interspersed with boulders. In the background is a bowl shaped hollow containing water bordered by sharply ascending scree slopes.
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, an underground mine was planted beneath German fortifications which left a crater similar in shape and appearance to Lochnagar mountain. The crater was subsequently named the 'Lochnagar crater'.
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, an underground mine was planted beneath German fortifications which left a crater similar in shape and appearance to Lochnagar mountain. The crater was subsequently named the 'Lochnagar crater'.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
GW Wilson, & Co, 25 Crown St, Aberdeen (photographer)
11.1 x 17.2 cm (image)
26.3 x 34.4 cm (page dimensions)
Princess Helena's Album 1852-68
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
- Lochnagar [Scotland]
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
