Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Fingal's Cave, Staffa
1859Albumen print | 7.4 x 6.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2320047
Photograph of the mouth of a cave. On the outside of the cave entrance, on the right, stand three men looking in.
Fingal's Cave is found within the Island of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is formed of hexagonal basalt columns, the same as can be found in the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. The three men on the right of the cave entrance have probably been placed to provide a sense of scale.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
7.4 x 6.8 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
- Hebrides [Scotland]
- Staffa [Scotland]
- Fingal's Cave [Staffa]
- Staffa [Scotland]
- Hebrides [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Earth sciences
- Geology
- Caves
- Geology
- Earth sciences
- Places
