Photographic portrait from a collection of glass plate negatives acquired by the University of St Andrews

            Acquired by the University of St Andrews in 2014

St Andrews and its surroundings was the birthplace of Scottish photography; as a result of the friendship between the British inventor of photography William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) and Sir David Brewster, Principal of the United Colleges of St Andrews, the first Scottish calotype is thought to have been made in St Andrews in the 1840s. The collection acquired consists of around 223 early wet collodian negatives, including around 90 stereo views dating from c1851-1870. They include early photographic practitioners posing with their apparatus at Rossie Priory, home of the photography patron Lord Kinnaird. 

Picture credit: University of St Andrews Library 

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Taken in: United Kingdom / Scotland / St. Andrews (show map)

Taken on: July 14, 2015

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