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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: House of John Knox, Edinburgh

1844
salted paper print
14.0 x 19.7 cm.
Gift of Alvin Langdon Coburn
GEH NEG: 42848
67:0083:0010

NON-GEH NUMBER: 87/2

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 72-73.//
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 2.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 245.//
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. 189.//
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. p. 131.//
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) "A" "House of John Knox, Edinburgh" "87/2"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, MMC. The High Street with John Knox's house.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, buildings
cityscape, urban

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