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 from above the Trossachs Pier
c. 1862Albumen print | 8.0 x 7.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2320207
Photograph of Loch Katrine as viewed from the hillside with wooded banks flanking the loch on either side.
Sir Walter Scott immortalised Loch Katrine and the Trossachs in the Scottish Highlands by setting his popular poem the Lady of the Lake written in 1810 in the area, which served to increase the region's popularity as a tourist destination.
Sir Walter Scott immortalised Loch Katrine and the Trossachs in the Scottish Highlands by setting his popular poem the Lady of the Lake written in 1810 in the area, which served to increase the region's popularity as a tourist destination.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
8.0 x 7.4 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
- Stirling [Scotland]
- Trossachs [Scotland]
- Stirlingshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Geography
- Physiography
- Lochs
- Mountains
- Physiography
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Botany
- Systematic botany
- Trees
- Systematic botany
- Botany
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
