Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Avenue and limes at Castle Grant
c. 1860Albumen print | 7.6 x 7.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2320157
Photograph of a view through an avenue of trees within the grounds of Castle Grant in Scotland. A path leads through the centre of the trees.
Castle Grant was built close to the town of Grantown-on-Spey in the Scottish Highlands. The name of the castle changed from Freuchie Castle to Castle Grant when the land the Castle stood on passed into the ownership of the Grant Family.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
7.6 x 7.2 cm (image)
17.2 x 13.0 cm (mount)
- From an album of photographs collected and arranged by Albert, Prince Consort, between 1860 and 1861
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Moray [Scotland]
- Castle Grant [Elgin]
- Moray [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Domestic architecture
- Castles
- Domestic architecture
- Architecture
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Botany
- Systematic botany
- Trees
- Lime trees
- Trees
- Systematic botany
- Botany
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
