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Photograph (Salted Paper Print) of James Inglis, by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, October 2, 1844

Inventory Number 46512


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.46512

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Sir John R. Findlay in 1929.
Other inscriptions
Illegible pencil squiggles on back.
Physical material
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 200mm Width: 138mm
Inventory No
46512

Description

Calotype (salted paper print from a calotype negative) of James Inglis, a doctor from Halifax, seated nearly three-quarter length, head very nearly in profile looking left, a leather glove on his left hand; photographed at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at York in 1844. Mostly greenish sepia, pale at edges, retaining the original brown only at centre; discoloration mark from juxtaposed paper on back.

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