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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: George Meikle Kemp

ca. 1843
waxed calotype negative
21.4 x 14.7 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
81:2540:0002

OLD GEH NUMBER: 184-2A
NON-GEH NUMBERS: P-11 / 52/293

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
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. 77.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Kemp" "184-2A" "P-11" (typed & handwritten note acompanying object) "P-11 (underlined)" "2 negs." "Kemp, George Meikle (1795-1844). Architect of the Scott Monument, Edinburgh, 1840. In early life was a shepard, a carpenter's apprentice and a millwright." "Brought from England by Mr. F.W. Coppin, 7/29/45" "J.B. (underlined)" "52/293" "21621" "(pound symbol ?) 4.4./4RNI-"

NOTES: George Miekle Kemp was the architect of the Sir Walter Scott Monument in Edinburgh which was completed in 1844, a few months after his unexpected death by drowning. Catalogued 6/90 MMC Updated 5/02 JRS

SUBJECT: personage, architect / Kemp, George Meikle

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