A watercolour showing a view from Ardverikie House. A green picket fence is shown in the foreground, with Loch Laggan shown behind. Trees are shown on the banks to the left with Highland hills shown in the background. Inscribed below mounted sheet: View from our window at Ardverickie [sic] looking towards the Corrie Inscribed lower right: VR del Sept: 1847. A double pen and ink line border is shown around the edge of the mounted sheet. Queen Victoria visited Scotland with her family during August and September 1847, touring the Western Isles and then staying at Ardverikie Shooting-Lodge. The Queen left Osborne house with Prince Albert and their two eldest children on 11 August 1847 and sailed up the West coast of England and around Wales to Scotland, arriving at Ardverikie on 21 August, where they stayed until 17 September 1847. Ardverikie, then owned by Lord Abercorn, is situated on the banks of Loch Laggan. In her journal entry of 21 August 1847, Queen Victoria describes Loch Laggan as "a fine lake... surrounded by beautiful mountains".