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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Greyfriars' Churchyard

ca. 1845
salted paper print
21.5 x 15.5 cm.
Gift of Alvin Langdon Coburn
GEH NEG: 42850
67:0083:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. pg. 241.//
Stevenson, Sara. --David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes Taken Between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.-- Edinburgh, Scotland: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981. pg. 192.//
Ward, John & Stevenson, Sara. --Printed Light: The Scientific Art of William Henry Fox Talbot and David Octabius Hill with Robert Adamson.-- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1986. pg. 134.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson: Masters of the Calotype", US, NY, Rochester February 6 - June 6, 1993.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Greyfriars' Churchyard Thomas Duncan & D.O. Hill"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, MMC. Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Naismith monument with Thomas Duncan (1807-1845), and D.O. Hill (1802-1870).

SUBJECTS:
architecture, tomb / Naismith Monument
portrait, ident / Duncan, Thomas
portrait, ident / Hill, David Octavius

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