A pencil drawing showing a view of Dunillie Castle, Oban, from the sea. The castle is shown surrounded by forest, to the left. Highland hills are shown on the distant shore in the background. Inscribed below: Dunolly [sic] Castle - Oban - VR del on board the V.&A. - 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 Kerrera to Oban. In her journal entry of that day, Queen Victoria describes Oban as "one of the finest spots we have seen, with the remains of the old Castle of Dunally [sic], & a range of high mountains in the distance".