Rev Dr Alexander Keith

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Artist/Maker	Hill & Adamson (photographers) Adamson, Robert (photographer) Hill, David Octavius (photographer)
Place of origin	Scotland (photographed) Edinburgh (photographed)

Photograph by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 'Rev Dr Alexander Keith', Free Church of Scotland Minister, of St Cyrus, salted paper print from calotype negative, 1843-1847, presented to the RPS collection by Miss Boog in 1931

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Categories	Photographs Portraits Scotland
Object type	Photograph
Title	Rev Dr Alexander Keith (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Salt paper print from calotype negative Salted Paper Salted Paper Processes Photography Calotype
Brief description	Photograph by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 'Rev Dr Alexander Keith', Free Church of Scotland Minister, of St Cyrus, salted paper print from calotype negative, 1843-1847, presented to the RPS collection by Miss Boog in 1931
Dimensions	Image width: 151mm Image height: 200mm
Style	Mid 19th Century
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. 76 (a) - National Galleries of Scotland, Hill & Adamson 1981 Catalogue, page and classification
Collection	Department of Photography
Accession number	RPS.1838-2018

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Record created	May 9, 2018
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1439203/rev-dr-alexander-keith-photograph-adamson-robert/

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