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 and Ben Venue from the Dale of the White Horse
c. 1860Albumen print | 7.5 x 7.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2320039
Photograph of Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, Scotland. In the background is the mountain Ben Venue. Gorse in the foreground.
Loch Katrine provided the setting for Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake. Ben Venue stands at a height of 727m and its name derives from the Gaelic meaning 'miniature mountain'.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
7.5 x 7.0 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
- Mountains of Great Britain
- Mountains of Scotland
- Ben Venue [Perthshire]
- Mountains of Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Geography
- Physiography
- Lochs
- Mountains
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
