Stunning rare albumen Fingal\'s Cave, Staffa c.1866 by George Washington Wilson for Sale

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Stunning rare albumen Fingal\'s Cave, Staffa c.1866 by George Washington Wilson For Sale

$Stunning rare albumen Fingal\'s Cave, Staffa c.1866 by George Washington Wilson$
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Stunning rare albumen Fingal\'s Cave, Staffa c.1866 by George Washington Wilson:
$23.88

Stunning rare albumen Fingal\'s Cave, Staffa, Scotland c.1866 by George Washington Wilson 1823-1893. A copy of this image is held in the Royal Collection.Wilson with his friend George Walker spent a day on Staffa. Sandy Macdonald rowed the pair there in his rowing boat. According to Walker Wilson took twenty four exposures of which \"twenty three were perfect\". Both Walker and Wilson maybe the figures on the right of the cave. Fingals\' Cave is on the island of Staffa in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.
Photograph from a portfolio of 42 photographs taken by Wilson to illustrate a book titled Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands that was published to great success in 1868. The bookfeatured entries from Queen Victoria\'s journals, written during her visits to Scotland. On 19 August 1847, Queen Victoria visited Fingal\'s Cave and recorded the event in her journal: \'As we rounded the point, the wonderful basaltic formation came in sight. The appearance it presents is most extraordinary; and when we turned the corner to go into the renowned Fingal’s Cave, the effect was splendid, like a great entrance into a vaulted hall.. It was the first time the British standard with a Queen of Great Britain, and her husband and children, had ever entered Fingal’s Cave, and the men gave three cheers, which sounded very impressive there.’
10 x 7.5 cms vintage mounted albumen print. Excellent condition. Small crease.
George Washington Wilson was a pioneering Scottish photographer. In 1849, he began a career as a portrait miniaturist, switching to portrait photography in 1852. He received a contract to photograph the Royal Family, working for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. e pioneered various techniques for outdoor photography and the mass production of photographic prints as he gradually began to largely do landscape photography in the 1860s. By 1864 he claimed to have sold over half a million copies.At the time of his death in 1893 (he had handed over the business to his sons, Charles, Louis and John Hay Wilson in 1888) the firm employed 40 staff and was one of the largest publishers of photographic prints in the world.

Delivered in an acid free archival sleeve and reinforced hard backed envelope.

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