Salted paper print from a calotype negative, second half 19th century, mounted on paper, with pencil inscription to mount that reads "Mr. Henning, Sculptor, as Edie Ochiltree," matted, unframed.

Sheet Size 8 1/16 x 6 3/16 in.; DOA 22 3/8x 17 1/2 in.

The Collection of Paul and Judith Nebenzahl New York, NY and San Francisco, CA

In a 2004 online article written by Malcolm Daniel, then Senior Curator, Department of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, he succinctly describes the importance of Hill and Adamson as follows:
In the mid-1840s, the Scottish painter-photographer team of Hill and Adamson produced the first substantial body of self-consciously artistic work using the newly invented medium of photography.

This particular image is one of their tableaux vivants, featuring the sculptor John Henning posed as the beggar Edie Ochiltree from Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary.

A print from the same negative is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The J. Paul Getty Museum; a similar image in is the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Some spotting and cockling to sheet.

$1,000 - 3,000