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Catalogue >Fine Art >  General >  Queen Victoria's Life in the Scottish Highlands Queen Victoria's Life in the Scottish Highlands - depicted by her watercolour artists. Online price: £10.50 / €15.75 Delia Millar Queen Victoria and Prince Albert loved Scotland dearly; and from the time of their first visit in 1842 they began to assemble a notable collection of watercolours for their Souvenir Albums, recording the places they had seen. Professional artists such as Sir Edward Landseer, Carl Haag, James Giles, William Wyld and George Fripp were commissioned to record the appearance of the old and new castles at Balmoral and the royal holidays there: the excursions by pony, the dancing, stalking, shooting and fishing, as well as the Highland Games and the pure delight of life in marvellous countryside far from the pressures of the south. After the Prince's death, a number of artists were summoned back to Balmoral to paint pictures that would preserve memories of happier days. The Queen's watercolours of the Highlands provided her with a constant source of pleasure and the creation of this fascinating collection is the central theme of Delia Millar's book. Delia Millar ISBN 0 85667 194 0 | Retail price £14.95  The author has made use of much unpublished material and many of the paintings selected for illustration, which are almost exclusively drawn from the Royal Collection, have never been reproduced before. Delia Millar has been working on the nineteenth century drawings and watercolours in the Royal Collection since 1977 and has published extensively on the subject. Her knowledge of the collection and the archival sources relating to Queen Victoria's patronage and collecting activities is unrivalled.