Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Scuir-na-Gillean from Glen Sligachan, Isle of Skye
c. 1860Albumen print | 7.6 x 6.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2320183
Photograph of a man standing in left side profile, who wears a Tam O' Shanter hat and a shawl over his left shoulder, leaning against a large boulder in the foreground. In the background are mountains. Taken on the Isle of Skye within the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
7.6 x 6.9 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
- Hebrides [Scotland]
- Skye [Scotland]
- Sgùrr nan Gillean [Skye]
- Glen Sligachan [Skye]
- Skye [Scotland]
- Hebrides [Scotland]
- Scotland
- Great Britain
- Physiography
- Mountains
- Europe
- Places