A watercolour showing Ailsa Craig, Scotland. The island is shown from the sea, with a flock of birds flying to the right. Inscribed below mounted sheet: Ailsa Craig - Inscribed lower right: VR del Aug: 17 - 1847. - begun on board V.&A. & finished afterwards. 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 1847. On the 17 August 1847 they passed Ailsa Craig. In her journal entry of that day, Queen Victoria describes Ailsa Craig as "a very curious rock, the formation being quite peculiar".