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Wood, John Muir
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Edinburgh [GB], 1805 - Cove [Dunbartonshire, GB], 1892
Activity
1847 [Belgium (views of)]
° 31.7.1805; + 25.6.1892. Calotypist. Scottish musician, piano maker, music publisher. Photographs taken during a visit to Belgium in July and August 1847: Bruges (28-30.7.1847) where he made nine known views, Ghent (30.7-1.8.1847), Malines (1.8.1847) and Brussels (1-5.8.1847), locations recorded in his diary. Also views of Antwerp and Louvain, locations not recorded in his diary, which breaks off in Liège on 8.8.1847. All known 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. Calotypist. Scottish musician, piano maker, music publisher. Photographs taken during a visit to Belgium in July and August 1847: Bruges (28-30.7.1847) where he made nine known views, Ghent (30.7-1.8.1847), Malines (1.8.1847) and Brussels (1-5.8.1847), locations recorded in his diary. Also views of Antwerp and Louvain, locations not recorded in his diary, which breaks off in Liège on 8.8.1847. All known 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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Management
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; SFJ revised 3.2.2023 based on information supplied by Jos Demarée