The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Verso of print
  • Photomicrograph showing print surface (scale bar is in millimeters)
  • Photomicrograph showing print surface (scale bar is in micrometers)
  • A photogravure reproduction of this work in Camera Work

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (Scottish, 1802–1870 and 1821–1848)

Portrait of Two Men (John Henning and Alexander Handyside Ritchie), c. 1845, printed 1890/1900

Carbon print; 21.1 x 15.7 cm (image); 22.2 x 16.4 cm (paper)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.685

 

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