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HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS (1802-1870); and ADAMSON, ROBERT (1821-1848)
"Reverend Fréderic Joël Jean Gerard Monod." Salted paper print from a calotype negative, 8x6 inches ( 20.3x15.2 cm.), with a caption, in pencil, and a Royal Scottish Academy monogram hand stamp on mount recto. 1844
- Notes: Rev. Monod was the founder of the Free French Reformed Church. This portrait was used as a study for Hill's painting "The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission, at Tanfield, Edinburgh, May 1843." The caption is in an unidentifed period hand, which appears on other prints by Hill and Adamson. A print of this image is in the George Eastman House collection. This image is reproduced in an early victorian album: the photographic masterpieces (1843-1847) of david octavius hill and robert adamson, (New York, 1976), p. 86.
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