- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Robert Adamson
- 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.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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