Oct 19, 2004 - Sale 2017

Sale 2017 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 4,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS (1802-1870)/ADAMSON, ROBERT (1821-1848)
Man posing with a book. Salted paper print from calotype negative, 61/4x43/4 inches (15.9x12.1 cm.), with notations, in pencil, and a Royal Scottish Academy monogram hand stamp on mount recto. Circa 1845
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The Royal Scottish Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1826 and was granted a royal charter in 1839. David Octavius Hill was a founding member of the Academy and, in 1852, donated a group of presentation albums containing calotypes of his work. The photographs were de-accessioned in 1977.