A watercolour showing a Highland landscape looking towards Monaltrie. After RCIN 980026.aq. A small building is shown behind a row of trees and bushes to the right. Hills are shown in the background. Inscribed below: The same view as the preceding one - copied from the other } VR - Jan: 1849 at Windsor.
A double pen and ink line border is shown around the edge of the mounted sheet.

Queen Victoria visited Balmoral Castle for the first time in September 1848. The Queen was quite taken with Balmoral from her first visit. After arriving on 8 September 1848, Queen Victoria describes Balmoral in her journal as "a pretty little Castle, in the old Scotch style... In front are a nice lawn & garden, with a high wooded hill behind, & at the back, there is a wood. The hills rise all around." The Royal family originally leased the estate before buying it outright in 1851.