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Glass plate negatives

Albert and Victoria’s collection of glass plate negatives show photographers’ working methods

WILSON & HAY (ACTIVE 1853-55)

Stag shot by the Prince Consort in Corrie Buie

5 Oct 1854

Wet collodion negative | RCIN 2083228

Glass plate negative of a group of Ghillies including George Gordon (on left) and Charles Coutts (third from the right) grouped around a tree with a dead stag shot by the Prince Consort in Corrie Buie

  • Creator(s)

    Wilson & Hay (active 1853-55) (photographer)

  • From the collection of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Agriculture and related techniques
        • Animal husbandry
          • Field sports (hunting, shooting, stalking)
            • Stag hunting
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Zoology
        • Animals
          • Mammals
            • Deer
              • Red deer
                • Stags (male deer)
      • Botany
        • Systematic botany
          • Trees
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