William Etty R.A.
Photograph
16th/17th October 1844 (photographed)
16th/17th October 1844 (photographed)
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Profile of William Etty R.A. sitting on a chair, holding a palette and paintbrushes.
Object details
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| Title | William Etty R.A. (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Salt paper print from calotype negative |
| Brief description | Photograph by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 'William Etty R.A.', Artist, salted paper print from calotype negative, ca.1844 |
| Physical description | Profile of William Etty R.A. sitting on a chair, holding a palette and paintbrushes. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Calotypes of D.O. Hill, R.S.A / and / Robert Adamson Edinburgh / MDCCCXLIII to MDCCCXLVIII' (Title page of Volume I) |
| Credit line | Given by Sir Theodore Martin, 1869 |
| Historical context | The famous partnership and collaboration between the artist David Octavius Hill and the photographer Robert Adamson came into being originally in order to produce photographic portraits to assist Hill as a painter. The team produced a wide range of superb, valuable work and they were the first consistently and successfully employ calotype process in Great Britain. 1843 Hill was introduced to Adamson and they began to collaborate on the production of calotype portraits as reference images for the painting ‘The Signing of the Deed of Demission’ which represents 474 dignitaries. Essentially, Hill posed and arranged the individual sitters or groups while Adamson attended to the technical aspects of the exposure, processing, and printing. Some of their most powerful images, however, were made in Scottish seashore villages and depict fishermen and women. They also photographed the architecture and monument of Scotland and made calotypes of their friends posed in medieval armour or costumes. |
| Production | William Etty visited Edinburgh on 16 and 17 October 1844. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Stevenson, Sara. 'David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes Taken Between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery', (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981). ISBN 0903148374 |
| Other number | pg. 59 (a) - National Galleries of Scotland, Hill & Adamson 1981 Catalogue, page and classification |
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| Accession number | 67323 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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