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Bonhams auction of Fine Books, Manuscripts and Photographs on 24 June includes one lot of Jessie Bertram carbon prints from the negatives of Hill and Adamson. The collection of 51 prints is estimated at £8000-12,000.
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Details here: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26773/lot/25/
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These sold for Sold for £8,925 inc. premium
At £187 each including commission, I think the person who bought them did very well!
I was fortunate enough to be custodian of four prints for 23 years. I found them, mounted on cream coloured card and wrapped up in a bit of brown paper. They were in a cupboard below the stairs in the Fine Art dept. at Edinburgh University, just outside my studio in the basement of No.19 George Sq. I realised later that it had been the store room of Prof. Baldwin-Brown, a late 19thC prof of Fine Art and they had probably not seen the light of day since his retirement in 1930. I had them properly mounted by James Berry in the National Gallery of Scotland and they hung in my studio. They are now part of the University collection. The prints were: Mrs. Rigby, Lady Ruthven, John Henning and the art historian, Mrs. Anna Jamison. This last image is the one for which we were unable to trace another exact match either in print or negative - which may be of interest to someone working on the negatives used by Jessie Bertram....
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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