John Forbes White
Holyrood Abbey, West Doorway
About this artwork
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artist:John Forbes White (1831 - 1904) Scottish
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title:Holyrood Abbey, West Doorway
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date created:1857
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materials:Carbon print ? from waxed paper negative
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measurements:25.50 x 26.00 cm
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accession number:PGP 70.1
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John Forbes White
John Forbes White
John Forbes White was a wealthy Aberdeen flour miller. He became interested in photography in his early twenties, learning wax paper processes from his boyhood friend and later brother-in-law, Thomas Keith. White took no more than one hundred wax paper negatives and had abandoned photography...