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Wood, John Muir
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Edinburgh [GB], 1805 - Cove [Dunbartonshire, GB], 1892
Activity
1847 [Belgium (views of)]
° 31.7.1805; + 25.6.1892. Scottish musician, piano maker, music publisher. Photographs taken during a visit to Belgium: Antwerp, Bruges (29.9.1847), Ghent (29-30.7.1847), Malines, Sint-Rombouts Cathedral (1.8.1847), Brussels, Liège, Louvain and Namur. All these images were made from calotype negatives. They constitute one of the oldest complete sets of Belgian topographic photographs that have survived intact. Holdings in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
° 31.7.1805; + 25.6.1892. Scottish musician, piano maker, music publisher. Photographs taken during a visit to Belgium: Antwerp, Bruges (29.9.1847), Ghent (29-30.7.1847), Malines, Sint-Rombouts Cathedral (1.8.1847), Brussels, Liège, Louvain and Namur. All these images were made from calotype negatives. They constitute one of the oldest complete sets of Belgian topographic photographs that have survived intact. Holdings in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
Locations
1847 [Belgium (views of)]
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Bibliography/Webography
COPPENS, Jan. "Britse Kalotypisten in Nederland en België (1). George Moir en John Muir Wood", Foto, vol. 6, 1985, pp. 58-63.
"John Muir Wood", accessed at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir_Wood
"John Muir Wood", accessed at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir_Wood
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Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#4811
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 12.7.2018; revised 25.2.2019, based on information supplied by M. Demaeght