A watercolour showing a view of a Highland landscape from a shooting-box on Craig Doin. Highland hills are shown with a forest stretching out below. Inscribed below mounted sheet: View from a heather Shooting Box, on Craig Daign [sic] - . Inscribed lower right: VR copied from the original Sketch & coloured from recollection Sept: 18. 1848 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. In her journal entry of 18 September 1848, Queen Victoria describes how she rode up Craig Doin with her husband Prince Albert to a "small [shooting] box made of hurdles, interwoven with branches of fir & heather. We lay there quite quiet & concealed, for nearly an hour".