[Greyfriars Churchyard, the Naismith monument with Thomas Duncan and David Octavius Hill]

[Greyfriars Churchyard, the Naismith monument with Thomas Duncan and David Octavius Hill]

Photograph

Hill & Adamson

Maker
David Octavius Hill, British, 1802–1870; Robert Adamson, British, 1821–1848

[Greyfriars Churchyard, the Naismith monument with Thomas Duncan and David Octavius Hill]

1843–45
Salted paper print
Image: 7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in. (19.8 × 14.7 cm)
Mount: 14 15/16 × 11 1/16 in. (37.9 × 28.1 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
1981.2389.0008
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, BC: Tomb in Greyfriars Churchyard with Thos Duncan RSA + DO Hill RSA (Tomb of John Nasmyth) [writing in parentheses is in Boyer's hand]
Inscribed in pencil on image verso, C: 20
Inscribed in pencil on image verso, BC: D.O. Hill + Thomas Duncan \ The Nasmyth Tomb
Inscribed in pencil on image verso, BRC: A.E [underlined]
Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, TC: Andrew Elliot Collection, print signed on back by A.E. \ Bought from J. Craig Annan's collection \ in Sept 1945
Stamped in black on mount verso, BL: GERNSHEIM COLLECTION.
Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, BL: Duplicate [under stamp]
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