A watercolour showing a view of Loch Long. The loch is shown in the foreground, surrounded by steep Highland hills. Inscribed below: Loch Long - VR del on board the Fairy 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 17 August 1847, Queen Victoria and her young family went on a day trip on board The Fairy, a Royal steam-boat. In her journal entry of that day, Queen Victoria records sailing along Loch Long, describing the loch as "splendid, — 5 miles in length, surrounded by splendid hills of beautiful shapes".