Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Rocks in the Pass of Ballater
c. 1862Albumen print | 7.9 x 7.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2320212
Photograph of a rocky cliff in the background with broken fragments of smaller rocks and scree in the foreground. Fir trees stand sporadically amongst the rocky landscape.
The pass of Ballater offers challenging landscape popular with walkers and rock climbers and is situated in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The pass of Ballater offers challenging landscape popular with walkers and rock climbers and is situated in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Great Britain7.9 x 7.3 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)
- Geography
- Physiography
- Mountains
- Physiography
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Ballater [Aberdeenshire]
- Pass of Ballater [Aberdeenshire]
- Ballater [Aberdeenshire]
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Earth sciences
- Rocks
- Earth sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Geography