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    JAMES VALENTINE (1815-79)

    Glassalt Shiel at Glen Muick, on the Balmoral Estate

    Sep 1868

    Albumen print | 11.2 x 16.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2140241

    Photograph of Glassalt Shiel, a large house at Glen Muick on the Balmoral estate in the centre left of the photograph. In the right of the background stands a hill and a stream runs in the foreground.

    • Creator(s)

      James Valentine (1815-79) (photographer)

    • 11.2 x 16.2 cm (image)

      33.9 x 46.1 cm (page dimensions)

    • Album: Windsor Castle Etc.

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • Scotland
              • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
                  • Glas-allt-Shiel [Balmoral Estates]
                • Glen Muick [Aberdeenshire]
      • Geography
        • Physiography
          • Streams
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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