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Adamson, John (attributed)
Scottish (1810-1870)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Professor Thomas Gillespie

ca. 1845
salted paper print
9.9 x 9.0 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
81:2400:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13525
NON-GEH NUMBER: AK 18

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. 63.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) (partially cropped) "Rev. Dr. Gillespie St. Andrews" "AK 18"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/90, MMC. Professor Thomas Gillespie (1777-1844) was Professor of Humanity at St. Andrews University. Calotype probably by John or Robert Adamson, attribution to John Adamson made by William F. Stapp, 2/93.

SUBJECT: personage, scholar / Gillespie, Thomas

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