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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Linton, His Boat & His Bairns

June 1845
salted paper print
19.3 x 14.2 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 3321
81:2389:0003

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13819-8

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 177.//
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 1.//
Ovenden, Graham (ed.). --Hill & Adamson Photographs.-- England, London: Academy Editions, 1973. p. 33.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 172.//
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. 198.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection: 1840-1915", US, NY, Rochester *** no exhib date given ***.//
"D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson: Masters of the Calotype", US, NY, Rochester February 6 - June 6, 1993.//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "Fishermen of Newhaven" "1844" (some writing cropped off) mount verso-(in pencil) "From the Ingles Collection (Dr. Weil)" "duplicate" (rubber stamp) "Gernsheim Collection"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, MMC. Three unknown boys and James Linton, Newhaven.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, ident / Linton, James
portrait, children
transportation, boat
occupation, fishermen

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