Portrait – The Gown and the Casket

Date1909

Artist David Octavius Hill (Scottish, 1802 - 1870)

Artist Robert Adamson (Scottish, 1821 - 1848)

CultureAmerican

MediumPhotogravure

DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (21.6 x 14.6 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 7 15/16 in. (27.9 x 20.2 cm)
Support: 11 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (30.2 x 21 cm)
Matted: 17 x 14 in. (43.2 x 35.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Peter N. Coffeen

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

BibliographyStieglitz, Alfred, ed. Camera Work, no. 28 (1909) Stevenson, Sara, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Catalogue of their calotypes taken between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edimbourg, National Galleries of Scotland, 1981, p. 137 Roberts, Pam. Alfred Stieglitz: Camera Work: The Complete Illustrations 1903 - 1917. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag GmbH, 1997, p. 477

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