A watercolour showing a view of a Highland landscape. Hills are shown to the right with mountains shown in the background. An Autumnal forest is shown on the edge of a valley in the foreground. Inscribed lower left: [?lower road to Abergeldie] Oct: 15. 1864. Inscribed below pasted down sheet: From the lower road [?to] Abergeldie Oct 15:. 1864. While staying at Balmoral, Queen Victoria made many expeditions to local beauty spots. On 15 October 1864, the Queen went driving with her daughters, Princess Helena and Princess Beatrice on a road she had previously enjoyed driving down with her late husband, Prince Albert. Queen Victoria records the drive in her journal entry of that day, describing how "The morning was beautiful & bright & I sketched".