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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Redding the Line

ca. 1845
salted paper print
20.0 x 14.3 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 17157
81:2398:0039

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13585-50
NON-GEH NUMBER: 47

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Nickel, Heinrich L. --David Octavius Hill: Wurzeln und Wirkungen Seiner Lichtbildkunst.-- Halle (Saale): fotokinoverlag halle, 1960. pl. 13.//
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 206.//
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 8.//
Ovenden, Graham (ed.). --Hill & Adamson Photographs.-- England, London: Academy Editions, 1973. p. 44.//
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. 196.//
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. 153.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "47" "Willie Liston"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, MMC. Photograph originally bound in album.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, ident / Liston, Willie
occupation, fisherman
people, stringing fishing line

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