A watercolour showing a view of Brodick bay and the surrounding area. Brodick Castle is shown surrounded by trees in the foreground, with Highland hills shown behind. Further Highland hills and forest are shown in the background with a glen spreading out below. Inscribed below mounted sheet: Brodick Castle & Glen beyond Brodick - Isle of Arran - Inscribed lower right: VR del on board the Victoria & Albert. Aug: 17. 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 1847. On the 17 August 1847 they sailed past Brodick Bay on the Isle of Arran. In her journal entry of that day, Queen Victoria described Brodick Bay as "beautiful with high hills & a glen".