Edward Forbes (reading a book)

Date(s): c.1846

Scope & Content: Photograph taken by David Octavius Hill, c.1846, who, according to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, was a Scottish painter and pioneer of "pictorial photography" who took up Fox-Talbot's calotype method about 1846 and "produced portraits which for genuine pictorial quality have perhaps never been surpassed". (Printed from original paper negs. in Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh).

Language: eng

Extent: overall: 21.5 cm x 16 cm

Physical description: black & white print

Item name: photograph

Collection: Photographic Archive

Level: ITEM

ID number: PG/12729

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