Sotheby's /May 9, 2002
€8,037.29 - €12,859.67
€8,827.69
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David Robert Hill - Portrait Of Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Née Rigby, Circa 1845
Original 1978
Auction:
Sotheby's -May 9, 2002
- London
Lot number:
18
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Description:
Calotype, mounted on album page, with
````R.S.A' (Royal Scottish Academy) stamp on the mount, This lot
contains 1 item(s).
Lady Eastlake, the wife of Sir Charles
Eastlake, the Director of the National Gallery of Art in London
and, for the first two years of its existence, president of the
Photographic Society of London, proved herself an inspired and
independent historian and analyst of the infant medium of
photography in her 1857 essay on ````Photography' published in the
Quarterly Review
(London, April 1857, pp. 442-68).
Provenance:
Royal Scottish Academy, from a set of
presentation albums, gift of David Octavius Hill in 1852.
De-accessioned 1977.
Thackrey & Robertson, San Francisco, 1978.
The Collection of Paul F. Walter.
Literature:
Sara Stevenson,
David Octavius Hill and
Robert Adamson,
Edinburgh, 1981, p. 135, ref. g.
