John Forbes White
Seaton Cottage
About this artwork
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artist:John Forbes White (1831 - 1904) Scottish
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title:Seaton Cottage
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date created:1857
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materials:Salt print from waxed paper negative
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measurements:23.30 x 29.60 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 106
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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...