Details
| Artist | Robert Adamson, Scottish, 1821 - 1848 |
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| Artist | David Octavius Hill, Scottish, 1802 - 1870 |
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| Date | between 1843 and 1847 |
| Medium | calotype |
| Dimensions | Image: 5 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches (14.6 × 19.7 cm) |
| Credit Line | Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund |
| Accession Number | F81.61 |
| Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
| Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Inscriptions | Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, top right: Dumbarton Portrait [illegible] in book Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, centered: h/o [illegible] |
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Provenance
(Daniel Katz, London, England);
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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).
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).