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2076R

David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson

Perth 1802 – 1870 Edinburgh & Burnside 1821 – 1848 St. Andrews

John Blackie, Publisher, Edinburgh / Jeanie Wilson, Newhaven. 1843 and 1845

2 Vintages. Salt prints. 19,8 × 14,6 cm and 19,8 × 14 cm (7 ¾ × 5 ¾ in. and 7 ¾ × 5 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson. John Blackie, Publisher, Edinburgh / Jeanie Wilson, Newhaven. 1843 and 1845.

Estimate:

EUR 2,000

 

- 3,000

USD 2,200

 

- 3,300

Sold for:

12,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2019

Photography, Wednesday, 27.11.2019

Information

2 Vintages. Salt prints. 19,8 × 14,6 cm and 19,8 × 14 cm (7 ¾ × 5 ¾ in. and 7 ¾ × 5 ½ in.). 1 photo laid down on original sheet (32,6 × 22,5 cm), thereupon inscribed and numbered in pencil by various hands on the reverse. 1 photo mounted on original sheet (37,4 × 26 cm), thereupon numbered in pencil: "67“ upper left by an unknown hand, as well as numbered in pencil by another hand on the reverse.

Sara Stevenson: David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Catalogue of their Calotypes taken between 1843 and 1947 in The Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Edinburgh 1981, p. 42 and p. 196 / exh. cat.: David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson. Von den Anfängen der künstlerischen Photographie im 19. Jahrhundert. Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Agfa Photo-Historama, 2000, p. 75, cat. 9 (variation, there dated: circa 1843–44)

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