Lot 126
Attributed to James Good Tunny and Others
album of Scottish Portraits including Members of the Royal Scottish Academy, 1850s
Estimate: £1,800 - £2,200
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Edinburgh, c.1850s. 8vo (20.9 x 13.3cm), 49 photographs consisting of 20 salted paper prints, average size 11 x 9cm, and 29 albumen prints, averaging 16 x 12cm, all loosely inserted in 19th-century blue cloth bound album with blank leaves of wove paper, no watermark visible, some later pencil captions to mounts and back of images, album lacking backstrip, lower cover detached
Provenance
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
Footnote
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.
