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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Sir Walter Scott Monument, Edinburgh, Under Construction

ca. 1844
salted paper print
19.8 x 15.0 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 36629
81:2398:0035

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13585-53
NON-GEH NUMBER: 51

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 65.//
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. 120.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "This Edifice is Colossal: 19th Century Architectural Photography", US, NY, Rochester November 8, 1986 - January 4, 1987. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: mount-recto (handwritten in pencil) "Sir Walter Scott Monument Under Construction." "51"

NOTES: Catalogued 2/86, JL, updated 7/86, SB, updated 7/90, MMC. Photograph originally bound in album.

SUBJECT: architecture, monument

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