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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Lady (Mary Campbell) Ruthven

ca. 1843-1847
salted paper print
20.5 x 16.0 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 42837
81:2398:0042

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13585-32
NON-GEH NUMBERS: 26 / 81

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Elliot, A. --Calotypes by David Octavius Hill & Robeert Adamson.-- Edinburgh, Scotland: 1928.//
Bruce, David. --Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes.-- England, London: Studio Vista, 1973. p. 209.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 205.//
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. 144.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 104.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Last Decade: The Emergence of Art Photography in the 1890s", US, NY, Rochester January 6 - May 7, 1984.//
"Camera Work: Process and Image", US, MN, Minneapolis August 16, 1985 - February 21, 1986.//
"D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson: Masters of the Calotype", US, NY, Rochester February 6 - June 6, 1993.//
"Through The Lens", US, NY, Rochester June 22, 1996 - May 3, 2001.//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "Lady Ruthven A Famous Pose." "Lady Ruthven" "No. 26" mount verso-(in pencil) "81"

NOTES: Catalogued by JB/KC, 8/84. Updated 6/90, MMC. Photograph originally bound in album. Lady Mary Hamilton (Campbell) Ruthven (1789-1885) wife of James, Lord Ruthven.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, ident / Ruthven, Mary Campbell, Lady
dress, fancy

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