Studio portraits, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and other subjects
Group of cartes de visite, 173 photographs
£353
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Includes photographers based in Edinburgh (12), Aberdeen (18), Dundee (6), Dunfermline (8), Glasgow (12), Perth (2), Fife (5), a group of children (9), large houses by Stuart of Leven (10), and a further 73 by various photographers based in Scotland and England. Group of 12 mainly occupational including workmen, a delivery man, butcher and carpenter, with some fading and spotting, a price list from Bremner of Banff, timber merchants and a pair appearing to show a family before and after the mother’s death. Also a group of 6 relating to passengers on a voyage from Dundee including 3 by Slinn of Colombo Ceylon (later Skeen & Co.) of an S. Keen and Alex Gray and James Fergusson. Also James Webster who travelled to Japan and Catherine Gibson of Melbourne by unnamed photographers (173)
Provenance
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century.