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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: James Ballantyne, Dr. George Bell, and D.O. Hill
PUBLISHED TITLE: Edinburgh Ale

ca. 1845
salted paper print
14.8 x 19.5 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 35686
81:2396:0049

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13836-6
NON-GEH NUMBER: 39

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 48.//
Ovenden, Graham (ed.). --Hill & Adamson Photographs.-- England, London: Academy Editions, 1973. p. 14.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 149.//
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. 157.//
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) "James Balentine" [sic] "Dr. Geo Bell" (arrow upwards) "note" "D.O. Hill" "39"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, MMC. Photograph originally bound in album. James Ballantine (1808-1877). Ballantine was an author and stained glass artist. Dr. George Bell was one of the founders of "ragged schools" and Commissioner in Lunacy. The calotype is also known as "Edinburgh Ale".

SUBJECTS:
personage, photographer / Hill, David Octavius
portrait, ident / Ballantyne, James
portrait, ident / Bell, George, Dr.

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