A watercolour showing a view of Ardverikie House. The shooting lodge is shown in the centre, surrounded by gardens. Highland hills are shown in the background and partial view of Loch Laggan can be seen through trees to the far left and right. Inscribed below mounted sheet: Ardverickie [sic] from the garden. Inscribed lower right: VR del Sept: - 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, where they stayed until 17 September 1847. In her journal entry of 21 August 1847, Queen Victoria describes the house as "a comfortable Shooting Box, built of stone, with many small nice rooms".