Rev Ebenezer Miller and family

1843-1847

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

Associated Names
David Octavius Hill

Artist, Scottish, 1802 - 1870

Robert Adamson

Artist, Scottish, 1821 - 1848

The image shows a group of four people. Three women and one man are present. The oldest woman, sitting in the center, wears a bonnet with lace details and a dark dress. She has a calm expression. A younger woman stands behind her. A child stands to the left, leaning on the older woman. On the right, the man is seated at a small ornate table with his hand on a book, wearing a dark formal suit with a white shirt and cravat. The background appears textured, possibly a patterned fabric or wallpaper. The photograph has a sepia tone.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    salted paper print

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 14.1 x 18.3 cm (5 9/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
    mount: 27 x 37.3 cm (10 5/8 x 14 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2007.29.34

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

D.O. Hill; gift to Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1852; de-accessioned, 1977; Howard and Jane Ricketts, London; NGA purchase, 2007.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on mount, by later hands, lower left in graphite: Missionary at the Cape of Good Hope ICM (circled); lower right in graphite: H/4/103 (horizontal); lower right in graphite: To get from Elliot (horizontal); stamped lower right: RSA; on verso, upper right in graphite: Revnd Thos Miller and family / Free Church Ministry in the Cape of Good Hope / See c. Ford/An Early Victorian / Album, pl 341

Wikidata ID

Q64146036

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