A watercolour showing the Scottish Isle of Iona. Iona Abbey is shown in the centre, surrounded by Highland hills. The sea is shown stretching out from the shoreline below. Inscribed below mounted sheet: Iona
Inscribed lower right: 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 anchored at Iona. In her journal entry of that day, Queen Victoria describes how "I, & the Ladies sketched" while Prince Albert when on shore.