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)

    Dunolly Castle

    c.1860

    Albumen print | 10.0 x 7.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2950692

    This photograph of Dunolly Castle in Oban was included in a portfolio of 42 photographs that were taken and published by Wilson to illustrate Queen Victoria’s reminiscences of her visits to Scotland, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. The book was published to great success in 1868. In the book, the queen writes about travelling to Oban via the Pass of Kerrera:

    one of the finest spots we have seen, with the ruins of the old Castle of Dunolly and a range of high mountains in the distance

    Queen Victoria, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands

     The photograph shows what appear to be two whale ribs marking the entrance to the foot of a path that leads up to the castle.

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