Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, from the Queen's Park
c. 1859Albumen print | 7.8 x 7.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2320230
Photograph of the Palace of Holyroodhouse taken from Salisbury Crags in the Queen's or Holyrood Park, Edinburgh. Beyond the Palace is the Royal Terrace Gardens and Easter Road winding up towards the right of the centre. The silhouettes of large boulders occupy the foreground.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Great Britain7.8 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
- Lothian [Scotland]
- Edinburgh [Lothian]
- Palace of Holyroodhouse
- Holyrood Chapel [Palace of Holyroodhouse]
- Palace of Holyroodhouse
- Edinburgh [Lothian]
- Lothian [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
