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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: John Henning and Mrs. Cleghorn as Edie Ochiltree & Miss Wardour

ca. 1846
salted paper print
21.0 x 15.1 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEGS: 9243 14142
68:0064:0022

NON-GEH NUMBER: 108

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Scottish Arts Council. --David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, 1970. pl. 25.//
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 109.//
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 61.//
Ovenden, Graham (ed.). --Hill & Adamson Photographs.-- England, London: Academy Editions, 1973. p. 67.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 303.//
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. 164.//
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) (illeg.) "108"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. John Henning (1771-1851). Mr. Henning was a sculptor. He is dressed as Edie Ochiltree, the beggar from Sir Walter Scott's play, --The Antiquary--. Mrs. Elizabeth (Cockburn) Cleghorn was the daughter of Lord Cockburn, and wife of Thomas Cleghorn.

SUBJECTS:
personage, artist / Henning, John
portrait, ident / Cleghorn, Mrs.
architecture, window

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