![Hill & Adamson, [The General Assembly Hall of the Free Church, Edinburgh, during construction]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7d290794-1821-4ac5-a2f4-5e68feb40b36/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
[The General Assembly Hall of the Free Church, Edinburgh, during construction]
September 9 1844
- Medium
- Salted paper print from a paper negative
- Dimensions
- 38.6 × 28.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-799291
In addition to portraits, David Hill and Robert Adamson made a number of architectural studies, such as this large photograph. They focused their attention not on the steeple church of Tollbooth Saint John's but on the structure undergoing construction directly below, the General Assembly Hall for the newly formed Free Church of Scotland. As a metaphor for the religious dispute in Scotland, the building stands for the new church sprouting up from under the towering presence of the existing church.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- September 9 1844 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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