- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Robert Adamson
- Provenance
- Presented by Dr Ernst Weil in 1949.
- Primary inscriptions
- Pencil inscription on back identifying the subjects: 'The Rev Mr- Millar | of Monchie | Dr- Samuel Millar of Glasgow | father & brother of Prof Millar' [correctly Miller].
- Other inscriptions
- ?Modern pencil inscription on back: 'AK 12'.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 179mm Width: 134mm
- Inventory No
- 51366
- Accession Number
- 1949-2/2
Description
Calotype (salted paper print from a calotype negative) of James Miller and his son Samuel, the former seated left, three-quarter length with stick, his son standing behind him nearly full length, both looking to left. Vertical format. Brown, paler at edges; brown stain bottom right. Revd James Miller (1777-1860) was one of the clergymen involved in the Disruption of the Church of Scotland; and his elder son Professor James Miller was a friend of the photographers Hill and Adamson.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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