Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
WILSON & HAY (ACTIVE 1853-55)
The old and new house at Balmoral
Sep 1854Albumen print | 16.1 x 21.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2140231
Photograph of the old and new houses at Balmoral, Aberdeenshire. The older building stands in front of the new building. The foreground is dominated by trees and a hill stands in the centre of the background.
Creator(s)
Wilson & Hay (active 1853-55) (photographer)
16.1 x 21.6 cm (image)
33.9 x 46.1 cm (page dimensions)
- Commissioned by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Scotland
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Balmoral Castle [Aberdeenshire]
- Balmoral Castle (Old) [Aberdeenshire]
- Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Geography
- Physiography
- Hills
- Physiography
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Botany
- Systematic botany
- Trees
- Systematic botany
- Botany
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
