James Valentine
'Edinburgh Castle, from the Grassmarket'
About this artwork
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artist:James Valentine (1815 - 1879) Scottish
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title:'Edinburgh Castle, from the Grassmarket'
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Albumen print
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credit line:Presented by Robert S.M. Wilson from an album belonging to Thomas Carmichael, 1985
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accession number:PGP 79.2
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James Valentine
James Valentine
The Valentine company was founded in Dundee by James's father, John Valentine, in 1825. After learning the daguerreotype process in Paris in the late 1840s, James added portrait photography to the family business in 1851. By the 1860s the company had begun to cater for the growing tourist industry...