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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Robt Bryson, Watchmaker
ALBUM TITLE: "Photographic Portraits"

ca. 1845
salted paper print
20.9 x 15.1 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
GEH NEG: 32456
79:0012:0012

OLD GEH NUMBER: 184-1 (12)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Schwarz, Heinrich. --David Octavius Hill: Master of Photography.-- England, London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1932. pl. 30.//
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 28.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 357.//
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. 46.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in ink) "Robert Bryson Watchmaker" (in pencil) "Mr. Gillespie, Hay" (illeg) "Ferry P." "12"

NOTES: Catalogued 8/90, MMC. Robert Bryson (1778-1852).

SUBJECTS:
portrait, ident / Bryson, Robert
occupation, watchmaker

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