A watercolour showing a view of a Highland landscape from Creag Bhalg (known to Queen Victoria as Craig Valloch). A heather-covered slope is shown in the foreground. Highland hills are shown in the background against a setting sky. Inscribed below mounted sheet: F[ro]m Craig Valloch - Sept: 25. 1865. While staying in Balmoral Queen Victoria made many expeditions to local beauty spots. On 25 September 1865 the Queen visited Glen Quoich and Creag Bhalg with her daughters Princess Alice and Princess Louise and her Daughter-in-Law Princess Alexandra of Wales. In her journal entry of that day, Queen Victoria describes how they "rode up the beautiful Glen, only going a short way before we took our luncheon, after which we sat sketching for some time. Then rode on up Craig Valloch at the top of which we got off & stopped again to sketch. The views were too splendid".