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Adamson, Robert

1821 – 1848

Pioneering Scottish photographer, collaborator and partner between 1843 and his death with David Octavius Hill as a calotypist after setting up in business in Edinburgh in 1843.



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Thomas Duncan

the sitter's coat is shown to button right over left whereas the norm for males is to fasten left over right, indicating that Sutcliffe did not…

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The Royal Institution with the Castle in the background

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Thomas Duncan RSA, Standing

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Calotypes: Architectural & Groups

p1 The Scott Monument and the Royal Institution p2 Clydesdale Bank, George Street, Edinburgh p3 The Royal High School, Edinburgh p4 Merchiston Castle…

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David Octavius Hill RSA and William Borthwick Johnstone ARSA

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Greyfriars Churchyard, the Naismith Tomb, with David Octavius Hill RSA and Thomas DuncanRSA

Sara Stevenson in the exhibition catalogue Printed Light (1986, p.134) speculates that this may have been one of a number of calotypes commissioned…

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Lady Glenorchy's Chapel during demolition, on the site of Waverley Station

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Bonaly Tower, with a group of ten

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Bonaly Tower, with Lord Cockburn and party

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John Henning HRSA and Alexander Handyside Ritchie ARSA

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John Henning HRSA with Alexander Handyside Ritchie ARSA and D O Hill RSA

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Miss Cockburn and John Henning HRSA as Miss Wardour and Edie Ochiltree (from Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary)

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