GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON 1823-1893, attributed to - IMPRIMER - Lot 24

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GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON 1823-1893, attributed to - IMPRIMER - Lot 24
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON 1823-1893, attributed to - IMPRIMERIE BLANQUART-EVRARD George Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 15, 1855. Photograph. Salted paper print mounted on card, signed "W.W." and dated in the negative. Image: 17 x 19.7 cm; sheet: 38 x 54.3 cm Although famous for his commercial photography of the 1870s-1880s, George Washington Wilson opened a photography studio as early as 1850. He became Scotland's first portrait photographer, taking a portrait of Queen Victoria in 1855. This salted paper signed "W.W." lower left can be attributed to him. Provenance: acquired in the early 1980s, by descent.
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