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Stereoscopic photograph of the entrance to Fingal's Cave, Staffa in the Inner Hebrides in Scotland. Standing on the right of the cave entrance are two men; one with his back to the viewer and another who stands in left side profile. 
Like the Giant's Caus
The wildest districts of Scotland

George Washington Wilson produced some of the first photographic souvenirs of Scotland

GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823–93)

Iona Cathedral, from the South-West

c.1860

Albumen print | 10.0 x 7.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2950724

As seen here, Wilson often devised new ways to capitalise on photographs he had already taken. One example was the ‘album’ print marketed from 1863, which was derived from one half of a stereoscopic negative. The negatives measured 4 ¼ x 3 ½ inches, which meant that the resulting photographs, after enlargement, were vertical in format. A selection of album prints were used to illustrate Queen Victoria’s reminiscences of her visits to Scotland in Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands.


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