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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: The Duncan brothers

ca. 1845
salted paper print
11.8 x 12.4 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 7503
68:0064:0048

NON-GEH NUMBER: 9

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
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. 161.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester March 1985 - April 1987.//
"D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson: Masters of the Calotype", US, NY, Rochester February 6 - June 6, 1993.//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "Th. Duncan's brother" "Thomas Duncan" "9" "original Negative in Eastman House"

NOTES: Calotype negative in H645-A, (neg. 7503A). Catalogued 6/90, MMC. James Duncan, of Perth, and Thomas Duncan (1807-1845). The figure of James Duncan was used for the Disruption Picture.

SUBJECTS:
personage, artist / Duncan, Thomas
portrait, ident / Duncan, James

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