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    ROGER FENTON (1819-69)

    View from the West side of Balmoral Castle looking up the valley

    Sep 1854

    Albumen print | 33.9 x 46.1 cm (page dimensions) | RCIN 2140238

    Photograph showing the view from the west side of Balmoral Castle looking up the valley with the gardens in the foreground. On the left is a large statue of a stag.

    • Creator(s)

      Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

    • 33.9 x 46.1 cm (page dimensions)

      22.3 x 28.1 cm (image)

      35.7 x 47.5 x 2.4 cm (album)

    • Windsor Castle Etc

    • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

    • Subject(s)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Great Britain
            • Scotland
              • Aberdeenshire [Scotland]
                • Balmoral Estate [Aberdeenshire]
      • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
        • Plastic arts
          • Sculpture
            • Statues
      • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
        • Botany
          • Systematic botany
            • Grasses
              • Grass
            • Trees
      • Geography
        • Physiography
          • Hills
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
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