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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Dr. Chalmers

ca. 1843
salted paper print
15.5 x 12.0 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 42843
68:0064:0030

NON-GEH NUMBER: 122

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. p. 338.//
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. 51.//
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) "Dr. Chalmers" "122." "Most Important" "He took the lead of (illeg.) the Church of Scotland from the Ch. of England"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. Reverand Dr. Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847). He was a Free Church leader, the first moderator of the Free Church Assembly, and the Principal of New College, Edinburgh.

SUBJECT: personage, clergy / Chalmers, Thomas, Rev. Dr.

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