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Portrait of the Grierson Sisters
Also titled Portret van de zusjes Grierson
1843 - 1847
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 195 mm x width 142 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
For Hill and Adamson, photography was above all an exciting exercise in exposure and a play of lines and forms. Our eyes are drawn to the girls’ hands and long corkscrew curls, which in combination with the Scottish tartan of their dresses make a striking image. The photographic duo produced hundreds of portrait photographs between 1843 and 1847, many of which Hill used as preparatory studies for a painted group portrait of Scottish clergymen.
