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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Porthole, Edinburgh Castle

April 9, 1846
salted paper print
19.8 x 14.6 cm.
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
GEH NEG: 42827
77:0502:0002

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Nickel, Heinrich L. --David Octavius Hill: Wurzeln und Wirkungen Seiner Lichtbildkunst.-- Halle (Saale): fotokinoverlag halle, 1960. pl. 59.//
Scottish Arts Council. --David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, 1970. pl. 23.//
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 178.//
Ovenden, Graham (ed.). --Hill & Adamson Photographs.-- England, London: Academy Editions, 1973. p. 60.//
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. 186.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 107.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 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.//

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. A Sergeant and a Private of the 42nd Gordon Highlanders.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, military
artifact, cannon

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