A view of Queen Victoria's bedroom in the old Balmoral Castle, with the mahogany tester bedstead with canopy and chintz curtains, and imitation rosewood chairs and sofa. Fireplace to left. Signed and dated. Verso: inscribed in a later hand '1854'.

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).