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    ATTRIBUTED TO WILSON & HAY (ACTIVE 1853-55)

    View from Craig Gowan looking up the valley towards Braemar

    Sep 1854

    Salted paper print | 22.3 x 28.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2140248

    Photograph of the view from Craig Gowan looking towards Braemar. In the foreground is a large expanse of ground covered in heather interspersed with rocks. The tops of trees can be seen over the hillside in the middle distance.

    • Creator(s)

      Attributed to Wilson & Hay (active 1853-55) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Great Britain

    • annotation: View from Craig Gowan, looking at the valley towards Braerman. Sept. 1854. [beneath work]

    • 22.3 x 28.8 cm (image)

      33.9 x 46.1 cm (page dimensions)

    • Windsor Castle Etc.

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • Scotland
              • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
                  • Craig Gowan
                • Braemar [Aberdeenshire]
      • Geography
        • Physiography
          • Hills
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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