Views in Scotland / [photograph]
Peat, John,Photographer.
Clark, Thomas,active 1865,former owner.StEdNL
Peat, John,Photographer,former owner.StEdNL
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1865?]
Cover title.
This is an album of Scottish photographs taken by John Peat between the years 1864 and 66. Little is known about Peat himself, he appears to have been an amateur photographer who joined the Edinburgh Photographic Society (EPS) in 1863, about two years after the society was founded, and later became its curator. In addition to giving lectures to the EPS, he exhibited in the 9th Exhibition of the Photographic Society of Scotland, held in Edinburgh in December 1864. The album consists of 128 photographs mounted on 56 leaves and has been specially bound in dark-red morocco, with gilt ornamentation. Each photograph has been numbered and captioned in pencil, mentioning location and sometimes the date when the photograph was taken, presumably by Peat himself. Although the album is dated 1865, and there is a hand-written ownership inscription on the front free endpaper dated '1865', the photographs from number 85 onwards are dated '1866'. The album consists of Scottish landscapes, reflecting Peat's travels in the country, with an emphasis on south-east Scotland, as well as some views of Edinburgh.
Ownership inscription on the recto of the front free endpaper "From my friend Tom Clark / London, 16 Novr 1865, / John Peat".