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Cabinet Prints - Portraits A Swan Watson |
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No. 1610 |
No. 2936 |
No. 3302 |
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Not numbered |
No. 3921 |
No. 6266 |
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No. 9941 |
No. 16188 |
Not numbered |
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A Swan Watson The Backs of the Cabinet Prints |
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Awards
All the
cabinet prints from A Swan Watson that I
have seen show the same awards It was in 1891 that that Andrew Swan Watson opened his Edinburgh studio at Bruntsfield. |
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A Swan Watson Dates of Cabinet Prints |
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From 1891 The cabinet prints would have been numbered chronologically from 1891 onwards. A Swan Watson's studio remained at Bruntsfield until 1958, but cabinet prints were probably produced there only until around 1900. No 3302 above has a theatrical appearance, but is probably a photograph from a session in A Swan Watson's studio. This photo is dated on the back, 1896. None of the other photos has a date, except the final one above, which is dated July 1902. This photo is much narrower than a cabinet print, but the mount has been cut to cabinet print size, perhaps to allow it to fit into a Victorian photograph album designed to hold cartes de visite and cabinet prints. This final photograph may suggest that by mid-1902, A Swan Watson (like many other photographers) had stopped producing cabinet prints and had moved on to other sizes of photograph. |