File:Edinburgh_Ale_by_Hill_&_Adamson_c1844.png
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Hill & Adamson: English: Edinburgh Ale: James Ballantine, Dr George William Bell (1813-1889)and David Octavius Hill] ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q3678920 |
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Title |
English: Edinburgh Ale: James Ballantine, Dr George William Bell (1813-1889)[1] and David Octavius Hill |
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Description |
The skills involved in producing calotypes were not only of a technical nature. Hill’s sociability, humour and his capacity to gauge the sitters’ characters all played a crucial part in his photography. He is shown here on the right, apparently sharing a drink and a joke with James Ballantine and Dr George Bell. Bell, in the middle, was one of the commissioners of the Poor Law of 1845, which reformed poor relief in Scotland, and author of Day and night in the wynds of Edinburgh[2]. Ballantine was a writer and stained-glass artist, and the son of an Edinburgh brewer. On the table we see a beer bottle and three 19th-century drinking glasses called “ale flutes”. One contemporary account describes a popular Edinburgh ale (Younger's) as "a potent fluid, which almost glued the lips of the drinker together, and of which few, therefore, could dispatch more than a bottle."[3] |
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Date |
circa 1844 date QS:P571,+1844-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | Salted paper print from paper calotype negative | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 14 cm (5.5 in); width: 19.7 cm (7.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,14U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,19.7U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236 |
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Object history | From an album assembled by D.O. Hill and given by him to the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1852; deaccessioned by the R.S.A., January 1977; [Sean Thackrey]; John Rubel; William Rubel; [Hans P. Kraus, Jr.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions | Subjects identified in pencil; stamped on mount: "RSA" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | metmuseum.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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