Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
WILSON & HAY (ACTIVE 1853-55)
View from Craig Gowan of the old and new house at Balmoral
Sep 1854Albumen print | 16.1 x 21.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2140230
Photograph taken from the top of Craig Gowan with the new Castle house behind and to the left of the old house. The foreground is dominated by trees with scattered dwellings to the right and background of the two old and new buildings.
Creator(s)
Wilson & Hay (active 1853-55) (photographer)
16.1 x 21.3 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]
- Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
- Craig Gowan
- 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
