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)

    Scuir-na-Gillean from Glen Sligachan, Isle of Skye

    c.1860

    Albumen print | 7.6 x 6.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2320183

    Sgurr-nan-Gillean provodes the dramatic backdrop to this photograph. The mountain forms part of the Cuillin range of mountains, or munros, with a height of 966 metres. The deliberate inclusion of the boulder and figure in the foreground adds depth to the photograph that originally formed one half of a stereoscopic photograph. Wilson titled another version of this photograph ‘Scuir nan Gillean from the East’.

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