Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Loch Katrine, Perthshire
c. 1860Albumen print | 7.1 x 7.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2320038
Photograph of Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, Scotland. In the right of the foreground is seated a man under a tree with his back to the viewer. Beyond a low stone wall that borders the loch is a thatched roved boat house with a boat outside in the centre of the background. A larger boat can be seen on the right.
Robert Roy McGregor (1671-1734), the famous Jacobite sympathiser, was born at the head of Lake Katrine. The loch provided the setting for Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake. Water from the loch is treated at the Milngavie Water Treatment Works which provides a source of clean water for the inhabitants of Glasgow. The works were officially opened by Queen Victoria in October 1859.
Robert Roy McGregor (1671-1734), the famous Jacobite sympathiser, was born at the head of Lake Katrine. The loch provided the setting for Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake. Water from the loch is treated at the Milngavie Water Treatment Works which provides a source of clean water for the inhabitants of Glasgow. The works were officially opened by Queen Victoria in October 1859.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
7.1 x 7.1 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
- Stirlingshire [Scotland]
- Loch Katrine
- Perthshire [Scotland]
- Stirlingshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Physiography
- Lochs
- Mountains
- Europe
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Vessels (marine)
- Boats
- Yachts
- Boats
- Vessels (marine)
- Engineering & Technology
- Places
