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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: John Murray, publisher

ca. 1845
salted paper print
20.0 x 15.6 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 11083
81:2396:0002

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13836:12
NON-GEH NUMBER: 37

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. p. 126.//
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. 95.//
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) "John Murray, publisher" "37"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. John Murray (1808-92) was the publisher of David Livingstone and Charles Darwin.

SUBJECT: personage, literary / Murray, John, III

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