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
1859-66Albumen 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.
Wilson together with his friend George Walker spent a day on Staffa. Sandy Macdonald rowed the pair there in his rowing boat. According to Walker, Wilson took twenty-four exposures of which 'twenty-three were perfect.' Both Walker and Macdonald may be included in the figures on the right to provide a sense of scale. 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.
Wilson together with his friend George Walker spent a day on Staffa. Sandy Macdonald rowed the pair there in his rowing boat. According to Walker, Wilson took twenty-four exposures of which 'twenty-three were perfect.' Both Walker and Macdonald may be included in the figures on the right to provide a sense of scale. 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.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Great Britain7.4 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
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
