Rev. John Guthrie, Evangelical Church minister, father of the artist Sir James Guthrie : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.

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Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 73 x 65 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 83 x 173 mm, with blind stamp of Lennie / 46 Princes St. / Edinburgh ; verso with fully contemporary inscription in ink Revd. J. Guthrie , and with the original Scots-Australian owner s name in pencil McMillan ; both are strong albumen prints with rich tones; some light rubbing but otherwise in very good condition; the mount is excellent ( verso with some insignificant pale foxing). Stereoscopic portrait of Evangelist Union minister Rev. John Guthrie (1814-1878), father of Scottish artist Sir James Guthrie (1859-1930). This portrait of which we can trace no other surviving example was taken by pioneer Scottish photographer John Moffat (1819-1894) in his studio at 19 Princes Street, Edinburgh, in 1856-57, and was sold by Moffat s neighbour, the optician John Lennie, whose business premises were at 46 Princes Street from 1856. (John Lennie joined the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1856 and joined Edinburgh Photographic Society in 1861). The reason we believe the photograph dates to around 1856 or 1857 is based on the fact that it was sourced with a group of stereoscopic photographs clearly all by the same photographer (John Moffat) and taken around the same time which included a portrait of Hungarian revolutionary, statesman and orator Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894), taken in Edinburgh by John Moffat during Kossuth s lecture tour of Scotland in 1856-57. These stereoviews were

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