The 5th Duke of Buccleuch commissioned a series of watercolours from Leitch to present to Victoria and Albert as a souvenir of their visit. The artist, William Leighton Leitch, taught the Duchess of Buccleuch watercolour painting, and from 1846 would be Queen Victoria’s own tutor for almost twenty years. However, the watercolours of the 1842 Scottish tour, which were painted in 1844 and to which this study is presumably connected, were not presented to Victoria at the time; she did not receive them until 1888, when the Duke's daughter-in-law Louisa sent them to her in a leather portfolio entitled 'Sketches in Scotland by William Leitch 1842'. See RCINs 919658 and 919659 to see the two finished watercolour views of Taymouth Castle that were part of this series.