Photograph Album of the Edinburgh Calotype Club
Various
- Art Funded
- 2001
- Dimensions
- Various up to 29.5 x 15 cm
- Vendor
- Dominic Winter Book Auctions
The album contains 206 calotype prints taken by a group of pioneering amateur Scottish photographers comprising Dr.
Adamson, Sir James Dunlop, Revd Mr McPhail, Mr C Innes, Mr G Moir, Mr J F Montgomery, Major Playfair and R&A C Tennent.
Provenance
1840s held by the Edinburgh Calotype Club; 1885-1900 Reverend Dean Montgomery, the last surviving member of the Calotype Club; 1900-2001 presumed lost.