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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Newhaven Fisherwomen

ca. 1845
salted paper print
14.6 x 19.7 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 42847
81:2389:0009

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13819-14

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. pg. 178.//
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: "D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson: Masters of the Calotype", US, NY, Rochester February 6 - June 6, 1993.//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "Newhaven Fisherwimen" [sic] mount verso-(in pencil) "duplicate" (rubber stamp) "Gernsheim Collec- tion"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, MMC. Two unknown women, Mrs. Margaret (Dryburgh) Lyall, Marion Finlay, and Mrs. Grace (Finlay) Ramsey.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, ident / Lyall, Margaret
portrait, ident / Finlay, Marion
portrait, ident / Ramsay, Grace, Mrs.
occupation, fisherwomen

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