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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of John Henning and Alexander Ritchie

ca. 1845
salted paper print
21.2 x 15.5 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 8969
81:2398:0041

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13585:25
NON-GEH NUMBERS: 19 / 22

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Dougan, R.O. --The Scottish Tradition in Photography.-- Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1949. pl. 6.//
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 172.//
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 42.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 78.//
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. 164.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "Handyside Ritchie (sculptor) and Henry T. Henning (do)" "No 19" No 22" (on binder) "Handyside Ritchie sculptor, old Henry Henning"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. Photograph originally bound in album.

SUBJECTS:
personage, artist / Henning, John
personage, artist / Ritchie, Alexander Handyside

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