Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Edinburgh, c.1850s. 8vo (20.9 x 13.3cm), 49 photographs, comprising 20 salted paper prints, average 11 x 9cm, and 29 albumen prints, average 16 x 12cm, loosely inserted in an album with blank leaves of wove paper, no visible watermarks, later pencil captions on mounts, some later pencil captions on reverse of images, nineteenth-century blue cloth, album lacking backstrip, lower cover detached
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century; Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 19th June 2019
Early Scottish portrait photographs including many members of the Royal Scottish Academy: Sir George Harvey (1806-1876), Horatio McCulloch (1806-1867), John Syme (1795-1861), Sir Daniel Macnee (1806-1882), Gourlay Steell (1819-1894), Samuel Bough (1822-1878), Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896), ?James Drummond (1816-1877), and a photograph of John Graham Gilbert's 1854 portrait of Sir John Watson Gordon (1788-1864); together with portraits of the physician Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882), the geographer and cartographer Alexander Keith Johnson (1804-1871), and minister Rev. Dr Patrick Clason (1789-1867), and other unidentified portraits of men, women and children.