Miss Bruce

Category

Library Item

Item no

1079

Title

Miss Bruce

Description

Portrait photograph of a woman named Miss Bruce. She is wearing a dark coloured day dress with buttons all down the front and decoration around the cuffs and shoulders. Her long hair is tied back from her face and she wears earrings and a brooch at her neck.

Artist / maker

Doull, David

Date

1866

Size

10.8 x 8.2 cm

Type

Glass negative

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Picture taken on the 8th December 1866.
Miss Bruce of 36 Gilmour Place, Edinburgh. The address belonged to Rev. William Bruce so she is probably his sister or daughter. Mr Doull also took a portrait of Archibald Bruce of the same address.

David Doull was a professional photographer at 72 Lauriston Place from 1865 - 1867. He was born in Edinburgh in 1831 and was one of the founder members of the Edinburgh Photographic Society in 1861. In 1970 Edinburgh Public Libraries purchased Mr Doull's collection of 319 glass negatives from Mr Frank Seymour, one in a chain of successors to Mr Doull's shop at Lauriston Place.

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Clothing and dress > Accessories > Brooches

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