David Octavius Hill
Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Rev. James Walker, Rev. Robert Taylor, Rev. John Murray, Rev. Dr William Welsh and Rev. Dr John Nelson

Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Rev. James Walker, Rev. Robert Taylor, Rev. John Murray, Rev. Dr William Welsh and Rev. Dr John Nelson

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Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Rev. James Walker, Rev. Robert Taylor, Rev. John Murray, Rev. Dr William Welsh and Rev. Dr John Nelson
ArtistScottish, 1821–1848
CultureScottish
Titles
  • Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Rev. James Walker, Rev. Robert Taylor, Rev. John Murray, Rev. Dr William Welsh and Rev. Dr John Nelson
Date1846
MediumSalted paper print from paper negative
DimensionsImage: 6 1/4 × 8 5/16 in. (15.8 × 21.1 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 8 5/16 in. (15.8 × 21.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2020.83
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Although early paper photographs lacked the precision of daguerreotypes, many artists found their strong contrasts and grainy texture to have greater artistic effect. In four and a half years, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson produced nearly 3,000 images, the earliest substantial body of self-consciously artistic work in the new medium. Hill composed the pictures, posing sitters and putting them at ease; Adamson operated the camera and mastered the chemistry. Originally intended as studies for a painting by Hill, the team’s photographs of ministers of the Free Church of Scotland, as seen here, are works of art in their own right.


Provenance[Unidentified dealer, England]; [purchased by Serge Kakou, Paris, 2018]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, center: S
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom center: S
Catalogue raisonnéStevenson group no. 104

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