About this artwork
Norman McLeod, working for Wilson & Company, made some of the first photographic views of life on the island of St Kilda. This image was included in the company’s touring lectures in the late 1880s with text describing the island’s population of women being ’slightly in excess of the men’ and stating that the women ‘do all the work of carrying the fuel and a man who would help his wife would at once be set down as showing a bad example.’
Published May 2022
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artist:George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893) Scottish
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title:St. Kilda, A Group
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date created:1860s - 1880s
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:18.80 x 28.70 cm; mount: 26.50 x 31.80 cm
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object type:
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credit line:The MacKinnon Collection. Acquired jointly with the National Library of Scotland with assistance from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Scottish Government and Art Fund
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accession number:MMK.00547.1
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gallery:
George Washington Wilson
George Washington Wilson
A hugely successful businessman, George Washington Wilson had left home at twelve to be a carpenter and subsequently trained as a portrait painter before turning to photography in 1853. By the 1860s he owned printing works in Aberdeen that produced thousands of prints with views from all over...