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About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs

David Octavius Hill and William Borthwick Johnstone

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April 10, 02:26 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 USD

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About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

1802 - 1870 and 1821 - 1848

David Octavius Hill and William Borthwick Johnstone


salt print, tipped to a paper mount, signed 'D.O. Hill RSA' and 'W.B. Johnstone RSA' in pencil on the mount

image: 7⅜ by 5⅝ in. (18.7 by 14.3 cm.)

Executed in 1843-47.

Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

Sara Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981),  p. 164

Other prints of this image are in the collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum.