DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL (1802-1870) & ROBERT ADAMSON (1821-1848)

Study in Bonaly: Eddie Ochiltree, circa 1845

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DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL (1802-1870) & ROBERT ADAMSON (1821-1848)
Study in Bonaly: Eddie Ochiltree, circa 1845
salted paper print from a calotype negative.
image/sheet 8¼ x 6¼in. (21 x 16cm.)

Literature

S.Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson Catalogue of their Calotypes taken between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1981, p. 164, cat. ref. Group 127.

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Lot Essay

The subjects, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn and the sculptor John Henning, are enacting the roles of Miss Wardour and Eddie Ochiltree from Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary.

Gift of Michael and Jane Wilson.

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