James Miller, surgeon and theologian : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.

A$600 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 75 x 65 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 83 x 173 mm, with blind stamp of Edinburgh Stereographic Company (probably a publishing imprint of John Lennie); verso with facsimile signature of the sitter Jas. Miller , and with the original Scots-Australian owner s name in pencil McMillan ; the albumen prints are both crisp images with excellent tonal range, in very good condition; the mount is excellent ( verso with some insignificant pale foxing). Rare early photographic portrait of Scottish surgeon and theologian, James Miller. James Miller (1812-1864) gained the licence of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1832 and was subsequently elected to the Fellowship. He was appointed Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh in 1842 and went on to become surgeon‐in‐ordinary in Scotland to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Outside of medicine, Miller was heavily involved with the Church, siding with Thomas Chalmers and the Free Church party at the disruption of the Presbyterian Church in 1843, and in his later years devoted much of his energy to the temperance movement. As a writer, Miller is best known for his Principles of Surgery (1844) and Practice of Surgery (1846), along with articles on surgery in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (7th and 8th editions) and numerous pamphlets on social, religious and professorial topics. (Royal College of Surgeons) The photograph was taken by pioneer Scottish photograph

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