Photograph taken in Madeira, of a view from a mountain top over a valley, where a church, with mountains on either side, is visible in the middle distance.

On November 8th 1880, Prince Albert Victor and Prince George (later King George V), rode to the Grand Corral which they described as 'a huge valley or chasm in the centre of the island, two miles long and half a mile broad, shut in by the highest peaks, which are very precipitous.' 

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.