George Meikle Kemp, Architect of the Scott Monument
The Scottish painter-chemist team of Hill and Adamson, among the first photographers to be recognized as artists in the new medium, exploited the paper negative's tendency to soften details and to exaggerate light and shadow in dramatic chiarascuro effects, imparting a Rembrandtesque quality that was much admired. George Meikle Kemp (1795-1844) was the self-taught architect of the two-hundred-foot-high neo-Gothic monument to Sir Walter Scott then nearing completion on Princes Street in Edinburgh.
Artwork Details
- Title: George Meikle Kemp, Architect of the Scott Monument
- Photography Studio: Hill and Adamson (British, active 1843–1848)
- Artist: David Octavius Hill (British, Perth, Scotland 1802–1870 Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Artist: Robert Adamson (British, St. Andrews, Scotland 1821–1848 St. Andrews, Scotland)
- Date: ca. 1843
- Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
- Dimensions: 21 x 14.5 cm (8 1/4 x 5 11/16 in. )
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 1997
- Object Number: 1997.382.12
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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