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Robert Louis Stevenson as a child with his mother

Photographer: Moffat, John (attrib) · 1819-1894

Robert Louis Stevenson as a child with his mother

Vide notes below which suggests John Moffat, engraver and photographer, at 3 Nicholson Square, Edinburgh was the probable photographer. He is listed…

Vide notes below which suggests John Moffat, engraver and photographer, at 3 Nicholson Square, Edinburgh was the probable photographer. He is listed as engraver in the 1854-55 Edinburgh PO Directory at that address and as a Photographer there in 1855-56.

If it was NOT taken by Moffat, the other photgraphers listed in the PO Directory for each of the above years are; J Howie, 45 Princes St (1854-56); J Howie jnr, 71 Princes St (ditto); A Orange, 43 Princes St (ditto); G Popowitz, 60 Princes St; R Armstrong, 63 princes SAt (1855-56); C Drummond, 133 Kirkgate; Duchaufour & McIntyre, 33 Whitefiled Place (ditto); Satires Georiades, 75 Princes St (ditto); White & Brewster, 68 Princes St (ditto)