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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Edinburgh Presbytery - Group Portrait

ca. 1845
salted paper print
14.6 x 19.5 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 17242
81:2396:0042

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13836-8
NON-GEH NUMBER: 130

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
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. 183.//
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) "130"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, MMC. Photograph originally bound in album. Edinburgh Presbytery, Seated, Rev. Dr. Robert Elder, Rev. Dr. Patrick Clason, Alexander Earl Montieth, Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs, Rev. Dr. George Muirhead, Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers, Rev. Dr. John Bruce, Rev. Dr. James Begg, Rev. Dr. Robert Gordon, Rev. Dr. Henry Grey. Standing, Alexander Dunlop, Rev. Alexander Watson Brown, Patrick Grahan, - Murray, 2 unknown men, Alexander (or William) Fraser, Rev. Dr. William Tweedie, Rev. - Foggo, Charles Chalmers, Rev. James Fairbairn, - Jeffrey, and Rev. David Thornburn.

SUBJECT: portrait, group / Edinburgh Presbytery

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