Lot 2076: David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson John Blackie, Publisher, Edinburgh / Jeanie Wilson, Newhaven

David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
John Blackie, Publisher, Edinburgh / Jeanie Wilson, Newhaven
2 Vintages. Salt prints
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
7 3/4 × 5 3/4 in. and 7 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.

1843 and 1845

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)