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Sobieski Stuart

Sobieski Stuart

David Octavius Hill
British, 1802–1870
Robert Adamson
British, 1821–1848
1840
A carbon print portrait by David Octavius Hill that stages a man in Highland dress to project a romanticized, dignified identity.
The first thing that strikes you is the upright, formal pose and the tactile richness of tartan, sporran, and medals rendered in warm, slightly grainy sepia by an early photographic process.
Made at photography’s early moment, this 1840 carbon print shows how photographers borrowed painterly composition to document costume and shape modern ideas of identity while exploring more permanent photographic techniques.
Medium
Carbon print
Dimensions
7 3/4 × 5 5/16 (19.7 × 13.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Warner Communications, Inc.
Accession
1152.1979
Palette
Exhibitions
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