A watercolour showing a view of Loch Fyne, Scotland. The loch is shown in the foreground surrounded by Highland hills, all sloping down to the centre. Inscribed below mounted sheet: End of Loch Fine [sic] close to Inverary - VR del on board the F. Aug: 18 . 184[7] 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 18 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 on Loch Fyne and describes how "The approach to Inverary is splendid, the Loch being very wide at that point & straight in front a fine range of mountains, splendidly lit up".