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)

    Oban

    c. 1863

    Albumen print | 7.8 x 10.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2950707

    Oban is known as the ‘Gateway to the Isles’. In his book Photographs of English and Scottish Scenery, Wilson credits Oban as the ‘great rendezvous of tourists in the West Highlands.’ As a port it attracted travellers wishing to explore the Inner Hebrides from the early nineteenth century. Beyond Oban lie the Isles of Iona and Staffa, both of which Wilson photographed. 

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