A watercolour showing a view of Loch Tay. Continued on RCIN 980040.bf verso. A loose pencil sketch of a tree is shown in the foreground to the right of centre, with the loch shown behind. The banks of the loch are shown in the background, lined with trees. Inscribed below: Loch Tay. Oct: 3. 1866. Verso: first half of RCIN 980040.bh Queen Victoria visited Loch Tay on 3 October 1866 while staying as a guest of the Duchess of Atholl at Dunkeld. The Queen stayed at Dunkeld from 1 to 6 Oct 1866. In her journal entry of 3 October 1866, Queen Victoria records how the royal party stopped for Luncheon at Loch Tay and remained sketching, describing how the "lake with its richly wooded banks looked most lovely".