Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1912 (Heft 37))

OUR PLATES

A LL the Plates in this number of Camera Work are devoted to the
y \ photography of David Octavius Hill. His name is already familiar
to our readers through the series of photogravures published in Num-
bers XI and XXVIII. Those, like the present one, were made by Mr. Craig
Annan from Hill’s original paper negatives in his own collection and that
of his friend, Mr. Andrews. Fashions and fads in photography will come and
go, but we feel convinced that Hill’s work will grow to be looked upon as
having the value of permanence and, though it was produced in the earliest
days of photography, will continue to establish a standard of taste and style.
It is also a rare good fortune that Mr. Annan, while himself one of the pioneers
of pictorial photography and second to none in his admiration of Hill’s work,
is also a master of the photogravure process. It is exceedingly improbable
that anybody in time to come will combine a similar technical ability with
so enlightened an enthusiasm for the old master-photographer. We have
accordingly embraced the opportunity of enriching Camera Work with the
new series of plates contained in this issue. To increase the historical interest
of these Plates we append brief particulars of some of the subjects of the
portraits:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquis of Northampton
(1790-1851), M.P. 1812-20; President of the Royal Society 1838-49; pub-
lished verses.
William Henning and Alexander Handyside Ritchie, both sculptors
of some prominence in Edinburgh.
Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A. (1803-1878), portrait-painter; made reputa-
tion as a painter of sporting-scenes; fashionable as a portrait-painter after
exhibition at the Academy of his equestrian group, including the Queen
and Lord Melbourne, 1840; R.A. 1851; President R. A. 1866-78; knighted
1866; painted portraits of contemporary celebrities, including Macaulay,
Lord Chancellor Campbell, Viscount Hardinge, and Landseer.
Robert Haldane (1772-1854), divine; Professor of Mathematics at St.
Andrews 1807-20; Principal of St. Mary’s, and Primarius of Divinity,
1820-54.
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860), author; eldest daughter of D.
Brownell Murphy; published among other works, “ Diary of an Ennuyee,”
1826; “Characteristics of Women,” 1832; “Visits and Sketches,” 1834;
“Companion to Public Picture Galleries of London,” 1842; essays, including
the “House of Titian,” 1846, and “Sacred and Legendary Art,” 1848-52;
friend of Ottillie von Goethe, and for a time of Lady Byron; devoted much
attention to sick nursing.
Robert Stephen Rintoul (1787-1858), journalist; set up as a printer
at Dundee, 1809; edited (1811-1825) the “Dundee Advertiser,” a paper
which became one of the chief liberal journals in Scotland; went to London
1826, and (1828) founded the “Spectator.”
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