Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
Stag shot by the Prince in Corrie Buie
5 - 5 Oct 1854Albumen print | 15.2 x 17.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2116992
Photograph of John MacDonald (d. 1860) seated underneath a tree on the Balmoral estate with his left leg on a dead stag that had been shot by Prince Albert earlier that day in Corrie Buie. MacDonald wears a kilt, tweed jacket and a cap and has a rifle balanced across his lap.
This photograph was taken by the partnership of George Washington Wilson and John Hay who were commissioned to photograph the keepers and Jagers who accompanied the Prince Consort during the hunting of deer on the Balmoral estate. In addition to these portraits, photographs were made of the game that was shot by the Prince. This photograph also was reproduced as a woodcut in Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands
Creator(s)
Wilson & Hay (active 1853-55) (photographer)
Subject(s)
John MacDonald (d. 1860)15.2 x 17.6 cm (image)
- From the collection of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mammals
- Deer
- Red deer
- Stags (male deer)
- Red deer
- Deer
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Social sciences
- Ethnology
- Costume & National dress
- Costume-Great Britain
- Costume-Scotland
- Scottish Highland Dress
- Costume-Scotland
- Costume-Great Britain
- Costume & National dress
- Ethnology
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
