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 - The Trossachs' Pier
c. 1862Albumen print | 7.4 x 7.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2320202
Photograph of Loch Katrine with a pier covered by a thatched roof, supported on wooden poles. On the shoreline in the background, stands a similar building with a thatched roof. In the background are crags covered in foliage and in the foreground, a rocky shore.
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)
7.4 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
- Stirling [Scotland]
- Trossachs [Scotland]
- Stirlingshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Waterway engineering
- Piers
- Waterway engineering
- Construction
- Structural parts of buildings
- Roofs
- Thatched roofs
- Roofs
- Structural parts of buildings
- Engineering & Technology
- Geography
- Physiography
- Lochs
- Mountains
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
