"For anyone who has not seen prints by Jessie Bertram, I would say they are the finest prints ever made from the Hill & Adamson negatives. On occasion they are also printed from negatives, for which no other print survives."
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"I suspect that Lot 48 by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889) is a portrait of the 12th Duke of Hamilton. There is an early portrait of him in highland dress in the NPG by another French…"
"I have been asked by Mrs. P. Shryane of the Harrow School Old Boys Association on behalf of the Harrow School Archivist to say that these negatives on sale on ebay "are not being sold by Harrow School" and that they "work hard as an…"
"Brilliant work David! I have written to Harrow just to make sure they know about these images. I suspect they were in a group by the photographer and someone may have de-accessioned them, not realising they contained such really important images."
"Yes, it was Harrow Rifles…"
"I don't think Boys Brigade. The cap badge looks like a Tudor rose with two stakes? I wonder did the school have a boys regiment?"
"Very interesting regarding the Marquess of Northampton. He inherited a spectacular collection, added to it and was deeply interested in art and science. The two portraits of him are by Scots (his wife was Scottish); a big oil by Henry Raeburn and a…"
"Just to add to my previous comment, I am taken with Martyn Jolly's thought that the image may have been made in the Egyptian Hall. The armchair shown is a very simplified and later version of an Egyptian Revival form that became popular after…"
"I hope I am not repeating observations made by others but for what it is worth:
The drape and the chair covering appear to be the same cloth. The chair and especially the upholstery looks 'provincial' - not the very stylish French…"
"Fascinating building. I suspect health and safety concerns caused a rethink of the high windows running up each end of the building and the elements were strengthened - particularly the horizontal element at waist height. Great bit of research…"
"I agree with Geoff, a sort of Bauhaus feel to the architecture. What an intriguing image."
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John Traill Taylor (1827-1895): an addition to the biography
While working through the British Journal of Photography I came across a reference to John Traill undertaking a photographic expedition to Orkney in June 1860 (listed by Peter Stubbs on his Edinphoto website) . He read a paper on it to the Edinburgh Photographic Society on 17 July 1861, published in the Journal on 1 August p. 269. He had with him a stereo camera and a 12 x 10" plate camera.... but where are his photographs? This is in fact John Traill Taylor, who became editor of…
ContinuePosted on July 28, 2018 at 9:00
James Ross, photographer
While doing some research on the Scottish sculptor, Robert Forrest some years ago, I stumbled on an interesting reference to the photographer James Ross, in the minutes of the Directors of the National Monument on the Calton Hill in Edinburgh (just above the famous 'Rock house' where D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson first set up their business).
I placed the results of my research on my website here:…
ContinuePosted on May 22, 2018 at 15:45
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