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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

TITLE ON OBJECT: James Nasmyth

ca. 1845
salted paper print
18.2 x 14.2 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 42811
81:2398:0044

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13585-26
NON-GEH NUMBERS: 64 23 / 20

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 208.//
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. 95.//
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) "James Nasmyth-the Inventor-Photographer- Astronomer-See his Autobiography & his book on the Moon Jelus with Photographs" "A Fine one & one I longed to get" "Boyer" "64" "No 20" "21 picas" (graphic arts notations) "No 23" (on binder) "Jas Naismyth Engineer" "G" (circled) "B"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. James Nasmyth (1808-90). Nasmyth was an engineer and the inventor of the steam hammer. He was also a friend of D.O. Hill.

SUBJECT: personage, engineer / Nasmyth, James

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