Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, top right: Dumbarton Portrait [illegible] in book Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, centered: h/o [illegible]
Dumbarton Presbytery, between 1843 and 1847
- Robert Adamson, Scottish, 1821 - 1848
- David Octavius Hill, Scottish, 1802 - 1870
Calotype
- Framed: Image: 5 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches (14.6 × 19.7 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
F81.61
Department
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
- Calotype
- Photographic paper
- Books
- Portrait
- Carbon print
- Calotype
- Men
- Scotland
Details
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Provenance
(Daniel Katz, London, England); 1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Bruce, D. Sun Pictures, the Hill-Adamson Calotypes. Greenwich, Colorado, 1973, pp. 38-39 (ill.). Stevenson, S. "The Calotype Photographs of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 66, no. 4 (1991): pp. 30-41 (fig. 2).
Rights Status
Robert Adamson; David Octavius Hill, Dumbarton Presbytery, between 1843 and 1847, calotype. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, F81.61.
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