Album of 49 early photographs of Scottish people, c.1840s-1850s

SCOTTISH PHOTOGRAPHS--TUNNY, JAMES GOOD (ATTRIBUTED TO, AND OTHERS?)

ALBUM OF FORTY-NINE SCOTTISH PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS. [?EDINBURGH, C.1850S]

8vo (209 x 133mm.), 49 photographs, comprising 20 SALTED PAPER PRINTS (average 110 x 90mm.) and 29 ALBUMEN PRINTS (average 160 x 120mm.), loosely inserted in an album with blank leaves of wove paper (no visible watermarks), later pencil captions on the mounts (and some later pencil captions on the reverse of the images), nineteenth century blue cloth, album lacking backstrip, lower cover detached

EARLY SCOTTISH PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS, including many members of the Royal Scottish Academy: Sir George Harvey (1806-1876), Horatio McCulloch (1806-1867), John Syme (1795-1861), Sir Daniel Macnee (1806-1882), Gourlay Steell (1819-1894), Samuel Bough (1822-1878), Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896), ?James Drummond (1816-1877), and a photograph of John Graham Gilbert's 1854 portrait of Sir John Watson Gordon (1788-1864); together with portraits of the physician Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882), the geographer and cartographer Alexander Keith Johnson (1804-1871), and minister Rev. Dr Patrick Clason (1789-1867), and other unidentified portraits of men, women and children.

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby's, Photographic images and related material, 25 April 1986, lot 90

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