David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson | The Jessie Bertram Set, [1840s, most printed later]

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

The Jessie Bertram Set, [1840s, most printed later]

a collection of 182 photographs (average 200 x 150 mm., or the reverse), including 16 salt prints, and 166 carbon prints printed c. 1919 by Jessie Bertram, all but one from the original calotype negatives by Hill & Adamson, all mounted recto only, with ruled ink border (overall mount size 405 x 305 mm., or the reverse), all numbered and nearly all captioned in ink on the mount, together with an index of sitters in ink, all leaves loose housed in two fitted buckram boxes,

PROVENANCE:

bought from Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York, in February 2014

LITERATURE:

Sara Stevenson, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981), various pages