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

  • artist:
  • title:
    St. Kilda, A Group
  • date created:
    1860s - 1880s
  • materials:
    Albumen print
  • measurements:
    18.80 x 28.70 cm; mount: 26.50 x 31.80 cm
  • object type:
  • 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
  • accession number:
    MMK.00547.1
  • gallery:
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George Washington Wilson

George Washington Wilson