"Afgans" or "Circassian Armour", ca. 1843

  • Robert Adamson, Scottish, 1821 - 1848
  • David Octavius Hill, Scottish, 1802 - 1870

Salted paper print from a paper negative

  • Image: 7 3/4 × 5 1/2 inches (19.7 × 14 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

F81.54

Inscribed in pencil, on verso, top center: F + S 2% | Afghan Costume | (Edward William Lane | + Mr. Redding in African | Chainmail suits).

(Daniel Katz, London, England)

1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Ford, C., ed. An Early Victorian Album. The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. New York, 1976, p. 300. 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): 30-41, fig. 10 (ill.).

Robert Adamson; David Octavius Hill, "Afgans" or "Circassian Armour", ca. 1843, salted paper print from a paper negative. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, F81.54.