Two Newhaven Fishermen
Photograph
1843 (photographed)
1843 (photographed)
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Salted paper print of two fishermen.
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| Materials and techniques | Salted paper print from a calotype negative, on the recto of a sheet of paper, folded in half to make two pages of an album. |
| Brief description | Photograph by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Two Newhaven Fishermen, David Young on the left and unknown man, salted paper print from calotype negative, ca. 1843 |
| Physical description | Salted paper print of two fishermen. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 72 (Recto, top right corner, handwritten in pencil.) |
| Credit line | The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund. |
| Object history | RPS.365:1-2017 and RPS.365:2-2017 are mounted together. |
| 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. |
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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 |
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| Accession number | RPS.365:1-2017 |
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| Record created | May 12, 2017 |
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