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David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: John Ban Mackenzie, Piper to the Marquis of Breadalbane and the Highland Society.

Posted by Alex Novak on September 10, 2011 at 17:02 in 19th-Century British Photography

Salt print from paper negative, 5-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. (146 x 95 mm), 1845c/1845c, on original mount. #12432Initials RA stamped in bottom right corner of the mount recto. A very rich print in fine condition. This was one of a group of studies that was used for Hill's painting "Edinburgh from the Castle, 1847". See: Sara Stevenson, David Octavius and Robert Adamson (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1981), p.86 for slight variants of this image.

&, 19th, Adamson, British, Calotype, Hill, Piper, Salt, Scotland, Scottish, U.K., century, print

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