Feb 10, 2003 - Sale 1959

Sale 1959 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 5,980
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS & ADAMSON, ROBERT
Reclining figure in kilt (Kenneth MacLeay). Salted paper print from a calotype negative, 5 3/4x7 3/4 inches (14.5x19.5 cm.), with notations, in pencil, on mount recto. Circa 1844
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MacLeay (1802-78) was a miniaturist and founding member of the Royal Scottish Academy. From its inception Hill & Adamson's collaboration was an artistic enterprise marked by portraits powerful in characterization. According to Helmut Gernsheim: "They have grandeur and originality; they are, in short, imbued with the quality of Old Masters." A variant of this image is reproduced in an early victorian album, the photographic masterpieces of hill and adamson