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Landscape, Nature and Architecture

Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him

GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)

Vinery, Dalkeith Palace Gardens

c. 1860

Albumen print | 7.3 x 7.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2320131

Photograph of the vinery in Dalkeith Palace in Midlothian, Scotland. A wooden walkway runs from the foreground to the background, framed by vines. At the end of the walkway, in the centre of the background, is a man seated in left side profile.

Dalkeith Palace was the seat of the Duke of Buccleuch. The family occupied the house until the 1914.
  • Creator(s)

    George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)

  • 7.3 x 7.1 cm (image)

    17.2 x 13.0 cm (mount)

  • From an album of photographs collected and arranged by Albert, Prince Consort, between 1860 and 1861

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • Scotland
            • Midlothian [Scotland]
              • Dalkeith [Midlothian]
                • Dalkeith Palace [Dalkeith]
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Agriculture and related techniques
        • Gardening
          • Gardens
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Botany
        • Systematic botany
          • Vines
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs