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View from near the floating bridge at Loch Laggan looking towards [Ardverikie] dated 10 Sept 1847

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Date

10 Sept 1847

Artist

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Collection

Royal Collection Trust

Image Link

https://www.rct.uk/collection/980026-x

Description

A watercolour showing a Highland landscape from Loch Laggan. Binnein Shios is shown to the left with further hills shown in the background. Loch Laggan is shown in the foreground. Inscribed below: View from near the floating bridge at Loch Laggan looking towards Ardverickie [sic] Inscribed lower right: VR del Sept: 10. 1847. A double pen and ink line border is shown around the edge of the mounted sheet. Queen Victoria visited Scotland with her family during August and September 1847, touring the Western Isles and then staying at Ardverikie Shooting-Lodge. The Queen left Osborne house with Prince Albert and their two eldest children on 11 August 1847 and sailed up the West coast of England and around Wales to Scotland, arriving at Ardverikie on 21 August, where they stayed until 17 September 1847. In her journal entry of 10 September 1847, Queen Victoria describes how she went "with Lady Douro, to near the floating bridge & sketched the fine view looking back to Ardverikie".
Descriptive Medium: 'Pencil, watercolour, pen and ink', 'pencil, watercolour, pen and ink'

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© Royal Collection Trust

Location

Ardverikie, The Highlands, Scotland

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Lakes
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Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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