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Call Number:

PH-00037

Collection Name:

James Valentine Photography Collection

Creator:

Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)

No. of Items:

49 photographs

Span Dates:

1867-1890 (bulk circa 1870)

Description:

The collection consists of forty-nine photographic prints (48 albumen, 1 platinum) by the Scottish photographer James Valentine. Most are views of architecture and streetscapes in England and Scotland, landscape views of Scotland, and several genre scenes of Scottish life. Also included is an albumen photomontage made up of individual portraits of 97 members of the British Association meeting in Dundee in September 1867, accompanied by an index identifying the portraits (964:0785:0001). Additionally the collection contains an original paper envelope from James Valentine, on which is printed: “Photographs of Scottish Scenery / by / James Valentine, / Photographer / By Special Appointment / To Her Majesty, / the Queen, / Dundee”. The photographs date from the 1860s to 1890 (bulk ca. 1870).

Accession No(s):

964:0003:0001-0034; 964:0007:0001-0013; 964:0785:0001; 981:0019:0008

Location(s):

U-V Box, Large (964:0785:0001)
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Valentine, J., Box 1 (964:0003:0001-0010; 964:0007:0001-0012)
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Valentine, J., Box 2 (964:0003:0011-0020)
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Valentine, J., Box 3 (964:0003:0021-0027)
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Valentine, J., Box 4 (964:0003:0028-0034; 964:0007:0013; 981:0019:0008; paper envelope)
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Item(s):

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Melrose Abbey
Date	circa 1870
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	11.5 x 17.9 cm; 4 1/2 x 7 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0001

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Melrose Abbey. Nave North and South Aisles
Date	circa 1870
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	11.5 x 18 cm; 4 1/2 x 7 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0002

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Abbotsford. The Drawing Room
Date	circa 1870
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	11.5 x 17.9 cm; 4 1/2 x 7 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0003

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	[Interior view, formal]
Date	circa 1870
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	9.7 x 14.9 cm; 3 4/5 x 5 9/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0004

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Ely Cathedral
Date	circa 1870
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	15.1 x 10.1 cm; 5 9/10 x 4 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0005

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Ben Lomond From Luss (Mist Effect)
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	13.4 x 20.4 cm; 5 3/10 x 8 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0006

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Forth Bridge.
Date	circa 1890
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	13.4 x 20.3 cm; 5 3/10 x 8 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0007

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Ellen's Isle, Loch Katrine
Date	circa 1885
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	13.3 x 20.2 cm; 5 1/5 x 8 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0008

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Silver Strand, Loch Katrine
Date	circa 1885
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	13.3 x 20.2 cm; 5 1/5 x 8 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0009

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Loch Lomond From Above Inversnaid
Date	circa 1885
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	13.1 x 19.8 cm; 5 1/5 x 7 4/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0010

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	[Peat Cutting, Hoy. 10832]
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	13.4 x 20.3 cm; 5 3/10 x 8 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0011

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	[Reel of Tulloch. 3847]
Date	circa 1870
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	13.2 x 20.1 cm; 5 1/5 x 7 9/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0012

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	[A Highland Washing. 5575]
Date	circa 1870
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	13.3 x 20.7 cm; 5 1/5 x 8 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0013

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	[A Highland Washing. 1145]
Date	circa 1868
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	18.9 x 24 cm; 7 2/5 x 9 2/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0014

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Edinburgh. Princes Street from National Gallery
Date	circa 1883
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	18.7 x 29.2 cm; 7 2/5 x 11 1/2 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0003:0034

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	British Association. Dundee, 1867
Date	1867 September
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	mat window: 28.6 x 24.3 cm; 11 3/10 x 9 3/5 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0785:0001

Artist/Maker	Valentine, James (1815 - 1880)
Title	Beverley Minster from South
Date	1850s-1870s
Medium	Platinum print
Accession Number	981:0019:0008

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See Also:

21 mounted photographs in [Photograph album] (f TR 655.11 P233 HRC-P)

12 snapshots of Castle Cawdor in the Literary File of Webster Aitken

1 loose carte-de-visite in the Card Photograph Format Collection (964:0756:0021)

20 mounted photographs in Norway (f TR 655.11 V254 HRC-P)

12 mounted photographs in [Photograph album] (f TR 655.11 P334 HRC-P)

5 mounted photographs in [Photograph album] (f TR 655.11 P242 HRC-P)

1 mounted photograph in [Crichton Album II] (f TR 655.11 C854 HRC-P)

1 loose albumen print inserted into Photographs of Sicily, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Belgium, France (f NA 202 P568 HRC-P)

20 mounted photographs in S. Y. Christabel in Norway 1894 (f GV 822 C585 HRC-P)

44 mounted photographs in [Album of Photographs of England] (f DA 625 A428 HRC-P)

10 mounted photographs in [Edinburgh and vicinity, by James Valentine. Dundee] (f DA 890 E2 V244 HRC-P)

[Album of H. C. G. Osborne: Photographs of Castles, Homes, and Parks]: Two photographs by Valentine are located in the [Album of H.C.G. Osborne: Photographs of Castles, Homes, and Parks] (PH-00914).

[Album: Views of London, England, and Scotland]: Five photographs by Valentine are located in the [Album: Views of London, England, and Scotland] (PH-00913).