A watercolour showing a view of a Highland landscape from Creag Ghiubhais. A glen is shown in the foreground, with hills shown behind. A river is shown to the lower left. Inscribed lower left: Oct: 14. 1861. While staying at Balmoral Queen Victoria made many expeditions to local beauty spots. On 14 October 1861 the Queen rode up Creag Ghiubhais with two of her daughters. In her journal entry of that day, Queen Victoria describes how, when near the top of the creag, they "got a little under shelter, & lunched leisurely after which we went on a little further, to get a view of the Glen, & here I sat sketching till 4, then began the scrambling & most difficult descent".