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Prince Albert collected photographs of places significant to him

George Washington Wilson (1823-93)

Loch Katrine, Perthshire c. 1862

Albumen print | 7.7 x 6.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2320206

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Photograph of Loch Katrine, Scotland, with a rowing boat in the right foreground containing a man with his back to the viewer. A fern covered bank is on the right hand side and tree covered hills are in the background. 

Other versions of this photograph have been titled 'looking towards Roderick Dhu's Watchtower'. Roderick Dhu was one of the three main protagonists in Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake who tried to win the affections of Ellen Douglas. Scott immortalised Loch Katrine and the Trossachs in the Scottish Highlands by setting the poem in the area.
  • Creator(s)

    George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)

  • 7.7 x 6.9 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

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
    Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • Scotland
            • Stirlingshire [Scotland]
              • Loch Katrine
              • Stirling [Scotland]
                • Trossachs [Scotland]
      • Physiography
        • Mountains
        • Lochs
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Botany
        • Systematic botany
          • Trees
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Engineering & Technology
        • Vessels (marine)
          • Boats
            • Rowing boats