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Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs

Photograph
1843-1847 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Photograph by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 'Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs', Advocate, Sheriff of Midlothian, leading Free Churchman and elder, salted paper print from calotype negative, 1843-1847, presented to the RPS collection by Miss Boog in 1931


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleRobert Cunningham Graham Speirs (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Salt paper print from calotype negative
Brief description
Photograph by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 'Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs', Advocate, Sheriff of Midlothian, leading Free Churchman and elder, salted paper print from calotype negative, 1843-1847, presented to the RPS collection by Miss Boog in 1931
Dimensions
  • Image width: 147mm
  • Image height: 148mm
Style
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.
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. 105 (a) - National Galleries of Scotland, Hill & Adamson 1981 Catalogue, page and classification
Collection
Accession number
RPS.1835-2018

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Record createdMay 9, 2018
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