Description
A watercolour showing a view of Lochnagar. Trees are shown across the foreground with one taller tree shown to the left. Lochnagar is shown in the background. Inscribed below mounted sheet: Loch Nagar [sic] from above Grant's [house] Sept: 20. 1864. While staying at Balmoral Queen Victoria made many expeditions to local beauty spots. In her journal entry of 20 September 1864, Queen Victoria describes how she "Went out in the pony chair, Lenchen [Princess Helena] walking, & we stopped to sketch". John Grant was the Head Keeper at Balmoral and lived on the Balmoral Estate.
Descriptive Medium: 'Pencil, watercolour', 'pencil, watercolour'
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
© Royal Collection Trust
Location
Rhebreck Lodge, Easter Balmoral, Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Country
Scotland
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
Queen Victoria ordered the construction of Rhebreck Lodge on the Balmoral estate in 1859. The granite mansion served as the private residence of John Grant, the estate’s head forester, who became a firm favourite of Victoria and Prince Albert (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/holiday-home-that-has-royal-approval-krh26xpf5)
