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Mr Gideon Walkinshaw
Doull, David, 1866, Glass negative
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Mr Gideon Walkinshaw
Mr Gideon Walkinshaw
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981
Title
Mr Gideon Walkinshaw
Description
The photograph shows a full length portrait of a young man, Mr Gideon Walkinshaw, who stands with legs crossed, and one hand on his hip, inside his jacket pocket. He holds a book in his other hand, leaning on a cloth-covered table on which another book has been placed. He wears a jacket, narrow bow tie, waistcoat and trousers.
Artist / maker
Doull, David
Date
1866
Size
10.8 x 8.2 cm
Type
Glass negative
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Photographed on the12th December 1866.
Mr Gideon Walkinshaw of 31 West Norton Place. This may be the son of Francis Walkinshaw who owned the house at Norton Place. Mr Doull also photographed Francis Walkinshaw.
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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