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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: John Knox's House on High Street

ca. 1845
salted paper print
17.6 x 13.3 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
81:2396:0044

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13836:30
NON-GEH NUMBER: 144

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 72-73.//
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 12.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 245.//
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. 189.//
Ward, John & Stevenson, Sara. --Printed Light: The Scientific Art of William Henry Fox Talbot and David Octabius Hill with Robert Adamson.-- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1986. p. 131.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "High Street, Edinburgh" "John Knox House" "x" "x" "144"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, MMC. Photograph originally bound in album.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, buildings
townscape, street

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