Castleton of Braemar
Sep 1857RCIN 2160042
In September 1857, Queen Victoria had commissioned Wilson to photograph the landscape that surrounded Balmoral Castle. Wilson, mindful of the queen’s knowledge and appreciation of the picturesque, took great care in producing prints that captured the beauty of the landscape. This is one of a series of landscape views that Wilson printed to a larger size in response to criticism that his photographs were too small when they were displayed at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857.