Estimate: £400 - £600
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Oval salt print photograph of Edinburgh from Calton Hill, dating to the early 1850s, 26 x 19.5cm, mounted onto card. Very similar to oval print dating from c.1850 by Ross and Thomson showing the city from the opposite direction (see nationalgalleries.org), faded but still with good detail, some marks to the surface, mostly original retouching
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century.