# Portrait of the Grierson Sisters

- By: Hill & Adamson
- Date: 1843 - 1847
- Medium: paper
- Classification: photograph
- Dimensions: height 195 mm x width 142 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-F80298--4a39a433311b851893274b40e2f85f83)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/TiTip/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.