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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: John Henning as Edie Ochiltree in Sir Walter Scott's --The Antiquary--

ca. 1846
salted paper print
20.6 x 15.9 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 42819
81:2396:0080

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13836:51
NON-GEH NUMBER: 7

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 79.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 302.//
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. 70.//
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) "7"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. John Henning (1771-1851). Henning was a sculptor. He is dressed as Edie Ochiltree, the beggar from Sir Walter Scott's play, --The Antiquary--.

SUBJECT: personage, sculptor / Henning, John

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