Craigdacourt
Daguerreotype
1848 (photographed)
1848 (photographed)
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Horatio Ross could be called the first snapshot photographer. However, because exposure times could typically counted in minutes rather than seconds in the 1840s, he had to pose his subjects in lifelike scenes or tableaux. Ross and his sons were crack shots and represented Scotland as marksmen; here he shows his wife with a rifle, apparently aiming at a stag in a Scottish glen.
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Title | Craigdacourt (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Daguerreotype |
Brief description | 'Craigdacourt', 1848, daguerreotype by Horatio Ross (born Rossie Castle, Angus, 1801, died Rossie Lodge, Invernesshire, 1886) |
Physical description | Daguerreotype of a woman at right leaning over a wall aiming her gun at a 'stag', whose antlers are seen at left. |
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Credit line | Given by Major Ross 1946 |
Summary | Horatio Ross could be called the first snapshot photographer. However, because exposure times could typically counted in minutes rather than seconds in the 1840s, he had to pose his subjects in lifelike scenes or tableaux. Ross and his sons were crack shots and represented Scotland as marksmen; here he shows his wife with a rifle, apparently aiming at a stag in a Scottish glen. |
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Accession number | 246-1946 |
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Record created | July 29, 2003 |
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