Photograph of a view of Balmoral taken from the North over the River Dee, towards the South and Craig Gowan. The Rriver Dee can be seen in the foreground and is surrounded by trees. Tree covered hills can be see in the distant background.

In 1857 Wilson was producing work that was of a larger size to those photographs that he had taken the previous year. There is a possibility that Wilson was influenced by Roger Fenton who was producing views of the same region but in a larger size in 1856; however, by September of 1857, Wilson was keen to utilise his artistic eye and skills of composition to produce these striking images of the Scottish landscape.