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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: William Leighton Leitch as a monk in Sir Walter Scott's --The Abbot--

ca. 1843
salted paper print
19.6 x 14.1 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 20794
81:2396:0055

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13836:65
NON-GEH NUMBER: 3

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. 81.//
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) "3"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883). Leitch was a landscape painter, water colorist, and drawing master to Queen Victoria. He is dressed as one of the Monks of Kennaquhair.

SUBJECT: personage, artist / Leitch, William Leighton

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