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David Octavius Hill|Robert Adamson|Hill and Adamson

William Borthwick Johnstone, William Leighton Leitch and David Scott as "The Monks of Kennaquhair" from Sir Walter Scott's "The Abbott"

1843–47
Salted paper print from paper negative

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