Photograph of a waterfall tumbling over a vertical rocky mountain surmounted with trees. The waterfall falls into dense tree growth at the bottom of the frame.

This dramatic photograph captures the dramatic scenery of New South Wales, whilst exuding the enormity of space that the landscape offers; elements that were popular themes of the European or so called 'Settler photographers' photographs of the Australian landscape during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.  
  

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.