Birnam Falls, Dunkeld
About this artwork
The rise of tourism as a popular pastime in the nineteenth century and Sir Walter Scott’s novels about the romantic past of Scotland generated a public interest in Highland scenery for which the photographic industry readily catered. The Aberdeen-based photographer, George Washington Wilson, had an acute sense of what constituted a popular view. He took enormous care in finding and composing self-contained scenes and it was the originality of his imagery, capturing effects of nature never seen before, that so fascinated his contemporaries.
Updated before 2020
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artist:George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893) Scottish
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title:Birnam Falls, Dunkeld
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date created:About 1860
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:19.00 x 11.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by Mrs J. Notman 1990
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accession number:PGP 71.17
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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...