A pencil and watercolour full-length male figure, standing and leaning to the left, with his face almost in profile to the right. The man is in full highland dress, wearing a Royal Stewart kilt, the star and ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, with his right hand holding an antler of stag. Small studies of head and right hand are visible.

The German artist Carl Haag spent the autumn of 1853 at Balmoral at Victoria and Albert's invitation. As a result he was commissioned by the Queen and Prince to paint two large watercolours of the royal family in Scotland as presents for his patrons' respective spouses - see RCINs 451255 and 451257 - one of which was 'Evening at Balmoral'. The studies he made for these works, as well as other Scottish scenes, were probably also acquired by the royal couple, and were originally kept in a portfolio lettered with the title 'Original Studies from Nature in the Highlands'.