A watercolour showing a view from the Sound of Jura, Scotland. Cliffs are shown in the background, with rocks shown rising out of the sound below. Inscribed below mounted sheet: Sound of Jura - VR del on board the Victoria & Albert - Aug: 19. 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 19 August 1847 they sailed up the Sound of Jura.