"Yes - it is a Duboscq Soleil litho copy of a dag stereo that Denis Pellerin kindly identified as "Groupe de Laocoon" - a classical statue that resides in the Vatican. In a DS stereo catalogue published in Feb 1852 it is number 9 on the list.…"
"I have now found images of John Hay junior and they are not similar to the third man in the image, so now I believe that John Hay junior is the photographer. The third man has a passing resemblance to David Hay, the elder brother, however images…"
I have recently acquired a daguerrotype stereoview of Scottish provenance. It shows three men round a table on which is an early Brewster stereoscope, a D&S black and white litho view and possibly a daguerrotype stereo, plus some small tools which…
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I would be pleased to share information about the alpine club photos and others--not that I know a whole lot.
Muriel