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Before photography was discovered, books were illustrated with engravings.
Here are some examples
Engravings
1829
The book: 'Modern Athens'
Book - Published 1829
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Edinburgh Old Town and North Bridge - from Princes Street - Published 1829
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© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ian Smith
Canongate Tolbooth - Published 1829
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Princes Street and the National Gallery - Published 1829
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Engravings continued to be used to illustrate books, after the discovery of photography.
The 1890 examples below are from about 50 years after the discovery of photography.
Engravings
1829 & 1890
Leith Harbour from the Pier - Published 1829
Newhaven from the Pier - Published 1890
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Granton Harbour - Published 1890
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Photography
1839
Daguerre and Talbot
©
Reproduced with acknowledgement to Edinburgh Photographic Society
Talbot by Szabo
1. Hair up Collar down. 2. Hair down, Collar up
© National Museum of Photography, Film and Television collection, by courtesy of the Science and Society Picture Library.
Talbot by Moffat
Taken at Moffat's Princes Street Studio, Edinburgh,
1864
following a meeting at Photographic Society of Scotland
©
Reproduced
from the National Museum of Photography,
Film and
Television collection,
by courtesy of the Science and Society Picture Library.
Talbot
Scholar with wide interests, and an MP
Visited Edinburgh in early-1840s
Lived in Edinburgh 1850s-60s
Honorary Member of EPS
Calotype
Based on Talbot's Photogenic Drawing
Paper Negative - Multiple prints
Talbot's Cameras
©
Reproduced from the National Museum of Photography,
Film and
Television collection,
by courtesy of the Science and Society Picture Library.
Talbot - Latticed Window
made from the earliest negative in existence, dated 1835
©
Reproduced from the National Museum of Photography,
Film and
Television collection,
by courtesy of the Science and Society Picture
Library.
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link to web site.
Daguerreotype
Delicate image on Metal
Single image, reversed
Daguerre - Painting
Painted stage scenery
Holyroodhouse by Moonlight.
Also painted Roslyn Chapel and
Fire in Edinburgh High Street.
©
Reproduced by courtesy of
The Board of Trustees of the National Museums & Galleries on
Merseyside
(Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
Sir David Brewster
St Andrews University
President of PSS
Introduced Hill & Adamson
© Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services
David Octavius Hill
Hill & Adamson - 1843-47
Secretary of Scottish Academy / RSA, 1829-69
© Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services
DO Hill by Thomas Rodger
Compare this with the bust is at 68 Great King
Street
and with the gravestone at Dean Cemetery.
© Reproduced by courtesy St Andrews University Library - Ref ALB1-135
Thomas Rodger Sen.
Dressed as a Newhaven Fishwife
![Thomas Rodger [sen.] - dressed in Newhaven Fishwives' costume.](../0_P/0_photographers_rodger_senior_in_fishwives_costume.jpg)
© Reproduced by courtesy of St Andrews University Library A LB49-11
Thomas Rodger Sen.
Playing the Bellows
Seated beside Hungarian violinist, Edouard Remeny.
![Thomas Rodger [sen.] - Playing the bellows" seated beside the Hungarian violinist, Edouard Remeny.](../0_P/0_photographers_rodger_playing_the_bellows.jpg)
© Reproduced by courtesy of St Andrews University Library
D O Hill
Disruption Painting
Disruption Painting
It took over 20 years to complete
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Free Church of Scotland Offices, The Mound
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Free Church of Scotland Offices, The Mound
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Disruption Painting
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Disruption Painting (detail)
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Disruption Painting (detail)
Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Free Church of Scotland © Photographed by peter.stubbs
Disruption Painting (detail)
Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Free Church of Scotland © Photographed by peter.stubbs
DO Hill - Disruption - Pencil Sketch
© This photograph is included with National Galleries of Scotland permission. See Copyright Conditions
DO Hill - Disruption - Pen and Wash
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D O Hill
Sketches & Paintings
Edinburgh from Corstorphine Hill - Pen and Ink sketch
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Parliament Square Fire, 1824 - Watercolour
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Hill & Adamson
Calotypes of Edinburgh
John Knox House
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White Horse Close
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Scott Monument
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J G Tunny
Studio - 78 South Clerk Street - 1852
© Reproduced by courtesy of the Yerbury Family. Click here for link to web site.
Studio - Salisbury Place - 1876
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Basement |
storage rooms, furnace and boiler. |
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Lobby |
25 x 12 feet, handsomely decorated with ornamental glass doors. The walls are hung with fine specimens of enlargements in various styles, including paintings in oil. |
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Exhibition Room |
30 x 15 feet, elegantly furnished, intended to be exclusively used for exhibiting photographs in oil. |
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Retouching/Spotting Room |
24 x 15 feet, fitted with numerous desks for spotting, and a table for cutting and mounting, with rolling press and burnishers. |
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Painting Room |
Small but luxuriously finished, lit from two sides and from the roof. |
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Printing Department |
30 x 20 feet, along one length of the room is a table on which printing frames are laid, covered with a series of sashes glazed with ground glass and placed at an angle, so that the work may be carried on during rain as well as in sunshine. |
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Fixing, Toning and Washing Room |
This room included a depositing sink in which most of the silver used was recovered. |
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Gallery |
28 x 22 feet, magnificently furnished, ornamented in the highest style of art, and containing large quantities of the very best of Mr Tunny's work in monochrome. - with couches and chairs covered in crimson Utrecht velvet, fine Indian curtains and an organ. |
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Studio |
28 x 21 feet x 18 feet high. |
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Darkroom |
14 x 14 feet, lit by a large window with orange glass. |
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Enlarging Room |
14 x 14 feet fitted up with the most convenient and perfect apparatus. |
Tunny - Cartes de Visite - 1860s
Tunny - Cartes de Visite - 1870s
J G Tunny
Views of Edinburgh
Looking across Waverley Valley to Shakespeare Square
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Tunny
Princes Street with steps to the station - 1850s
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Tunny
Princes Street from Scott Monument - 1880s
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J G Tunny
USA Tour
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Lecture to EPS JG Tunny gave an account of his tour to a large audience at EPS on 3 Oct 1883. Photos were displayed around the walls. "Mr Tunny paid a high tribute to the untiring industry and artistic ability of Mr Watkins, who, with nearly two tons of impedimenta, mounted on sixteen mules secured under the most trying circumstances, secured these first photographs of the wonderful Yosemite Valley" Tunny's travels took him to: Boston New York Santa Fe Yosemite "On leaving Los Angeles, the train ascends the San Fernando mountains, and passes them by the mammoth tunnel, about 7,000 feet in length. This journey was the most fatiguing that I encountered. The first day's ride into the valley was 66 miles, and the second 24 miles. The valley is six miles long and half a mile broad. San Francisco Rocky Mountains Denver Chicago Detroit Niagara Falls. |
George Washington Wilson
GWW
Instantaneous Photos
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Princes Street - c.1859
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Princes Street - c.1860
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Waverley
Bridge and Edinburgh Old Town
from Princes Street
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Waverley Bridge, Canal Street Station, Edinburgh Old Town - Around 1860
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Waverley Bridge, Canal Street Station, Edinburgh Old Town - Around 1860
Waverley Bridge, Canal Street Station, Edinburgh Old Town (detail) - Around 1860
43 Princes Street
GWW
Wilson's horse-drawn darkroom parked outside The Old Waverley Hotel
© Queen Mother Library - University of Aberdeen
James Howie
Rooftop studio at 43 Princes Street (Ebsworth engraving)
© Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services
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