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Miss Isabella Thomson
Doull, David, 1866, Glass negative
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Miss Isabella Thomson
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Title
Miss Isabella Thomson
Description
Portrait photograph of Miss Isabella Thomson. She is sitting in a chair beside a small table and curtain. She is wearing a black shawl over a long-sleeved day dress. She also wears a decorative bonnet which ties under her chin. She is resting her feet on a small footstool and holding a book in her lap.
Artist / maker
Doull, David
Date
1866
Size
10.8 x 8.2 cm
Type
Glass negative
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Photographed on 15th October 1866.
Miss Isabella Thomson, 5 Windmill Street. The address belongs to William Thomson, brewer who is probably Miss Thomson's brother. Mr Doull photographed seven members of the Thomson family.
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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