ID:PC_PRISCUS_SCO5210DESCRIPTION:High Street, Inverness. It was taken by George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893) an Aberdeen-based photographer who travelled extensively in Scotland, and abroad, taking landscape photographs with the aid of a portable darkroom. He photographed Queen Victoria and was commissioned by her to record the construction of Balmoral.
The elegant building on the left was, from 1907 until recently, the Bank of Scotland. Designed by the architects Mackenzie and Matthews of Elgin, it was built as the head office of the Caledonian Bank in 1847. The balcony has a huge vase at each end carved with garlanded portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Above the Corinthian columns of the portico the tympanum is decorated with allegorical figures of land and sea carved by A. Handyside Ritchie. It is now being redeveloped as a barPLACENAME:InvernessOLD COUNTY/PARISH:INVERNESS: Inverness and BonaCREATOR (AV):George Washington WilsonPERIOD:1880s (c.)SOURCE:Mark Butterworth - PriscusCOLLECTION:Imaging the PastAsset ID:29575KEYWORDS:
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