About the Artwork
Dumbarton Presbytery
between 1843 and 1847
David Octavius Hill (Artist) Scottish, 1802 - 1870 Robert Adamson (Artist) Scottish, 1821 - 1848
Salted paper print from a paper negative
Image: 5 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches (14.6 × 19.7 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
F81.61
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, top right: Dumbarton Portrait [illegible] in book Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, centered: h/o [illegible]
Provenance
(Daniel Katz, London, England)
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Robert Adamson; David Octavius Hill, Dumbarton Presbytery, between 1843 and 1847, salted paper print from a paper negative. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, F81.61.
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