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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Right Hon Sir John McNeill, G.C.B.

August 18, 1845
salted paper print
19.7 x 14.5 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 33835
68:0064:0005

NON-GEH NUMBER: 33

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. pg. 132.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. pg. 198.//
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. 88.//
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: mount recto-(in pencil) "The Right Hon Sir John McNeill, C.J. C.B." "1795-1883" "33"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. Sir John McNeill (1795-1883). Ambassador to the Court of Persia. MvNeill also served as Privy Councillor, asd as Chairman of the Board to Supervise the Poor Law Act, 1845.

SUBJECTS:
personage, diplomat / McNeill, John, Sir
personage, medical / McNeill, John, Sir

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