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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: David Roberts R.A.

September 1844
salted paper print
20.8 x 15.2 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 42814
81:2396:0056

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13836:73
NON-GEH NUMBER: 20

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Scottish Arts Council. --David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, 1970. p. 18.//
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 189.//
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. p. 43.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 141.//
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. p. 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. 127.//
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) "David Roberts R.A." "20"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. David Roberts (1796-1864). He was a landscape painter and a member of the Royal Academy. He also owned a volume of Hill and Adamson calotypes.

SUBJECT: personage, artist / Roberts, David

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