A watercolour view of Queen Victoria's sitting room in the old Balmoral Castle. On the walls can be seen prints after Landseer's oil paintings; on the firescreen is a copy of Landseer's oil portrait of Eos. The cloths on the tables appear to be made of the newly designed Balmoral tartan; stags' heads on walls. Signed and dated bottom left.

Four watercolours by the Aberdeen artist James Giles were commissioned by Queen Victoria to record the four principal rooms in the old Balmoral Castle, prior to its demolition in 1856. However, the watercolours were considered too large and the photographer George Washington Wilson (1823-93) was commissioned to produce smaller photographic copies of them that Giles subsequently hand coloured (see RCINs 2140210, 2140212, 2140214 and 2140217).