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| Keywords: Edinburgh Ale by Hill & Adamson c1844.png Assessments 1 File Edinburgh Ale by Hill Adamson c1844 png Artwork Creator Hill Adamson The skills involved in producing calotypes were not only of a technical nature Hill ™s sociability humour and his capacity to gauge the sitters ™ characters all played a crucial part in his photography He is shown here on the right apparently sharing a drink and a joke with James Ballantine and Dr George Bell Bell in the middle was one of the commissioners of the Poor Law of 1845 which reformed poor relief in Scotland and author of Day and night in the wynds of Edinburghhttp //books google com/books id P5wHAAAAQAAJ Ballantine was a writer and stained-glass artist and the son of an Edinburgh brewer On the table we see a beer bottle and three 19th-century drinking glasses called ale flutes One contemporary account describes a popular Edinburgh ale Younger's as a potent fluid which almost glued the lips of the drinker together and of which few therefore could dispatch more than a bottle http //books google com/books id cfaW7pkoPioC pg PA55 ~ 1844 Salted paper print from paper calotype negative cm 14 19 7 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history From an album assembled by D O Hill and given by him to the Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh 1852; deaccessioned by the R S A January 1977; Sean Thackrey; John Rubel; William Rubel; Hans P Kraus Jr exhibition history credit line Subjects identified in pencil; stamped on mount RSA accession number http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/190035130 metmuseum org <gallery> File Edinburgh Ale by Robert Adamson jpg National Portrait Gallery print File Edinburgh Ale- James Ballantine Dr George Bell and David Octavius Hill jpg National Gallery of Scotland print File J Ballantyne Dr George Bell and David Octavius Hil 8386802108 jpg National Media Museum </gallery> PD-old-100 Hill Adamson Beer drinking in art 1844 photographs Salt prints Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Historical photographs of alcohol culture | ||||
