A watercolour showing hills on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. The hills are shown from the sea, which is shown stretching out below. Inscribed below pasted down sheet: Arran Hills - VR del - on board the V.&A. 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 the Isle of Arran.