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The son is assisted by a gillie (a Scottish term for an attendant in the sport). It is true that photography made possible new kinds of intimate and casual records of family life. However, this photograph would have been very deliberately staged and posed, because the Daguerreotype process was highly complex to use, especially in the open air. Daguerrotype was the first commercially available form of photography, introduced in 1839. Each photograph was a one-off, appearing on a silvered copper plate.\r\n\r\nIn fact, Horatio Ross was perhaps the only photographer to use the process to photograph fly-fishing. He himself was one of the greatest sportsmen of his time. When he took up photography as one of the earliest British amateurs he naturally sought to illustrate his favourite pastimes. This example is enhanced by a lucky accident. The relative brightness of the sky, compared to the rest of the scene, has caused ‘solarisation’ - a reversal of white into blue. It looks as if the sky that day was blue and the Daguerreotype medium (which was black and white only) had been able to record it.","physicalDescription":"Daguerrotype showing Horatio Ross ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Ross, Horatio","id":"A8800"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"AAT25687"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"copper","id":"AAT11020"}],"techniques":[{"text":"daguerreotype","id":"AAT53530"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Daguerreotype","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Scotland","id":"THES262877"},{"text":"Sport","id":"THES48893"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2016JF2923"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"DAG","shelf":"14","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"daguerreotype","id":"AAT53530"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1847","earliest":"1847-01-01","latest":"1847-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Maj. 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Hoddy and John Munro Fishing at Flaipool, 1847.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries\r\nDAGUERREOTYPES<br>\r\nDaguerreotypes are the earliest widely known photographs: their startling clarity is still impressive. The image is made on a brightly polished sheet of silvered copper. This process was initially used almost entirely for commercial portraiture. The photographs here by early amateurs, Horatio Ross and William Edward Kilburn, show a portrait and a fishing scene, prototypes of the ever-popular 'family snapshot'.","date":{"text":"14/07/06","earliest":"2006-07-14","latest":"2006-07-14"}},{"text":"<b>Object Type</b><br>\r\nDaguerreotypes (an early type of photograph on a silvered copper plate) were usually protected by glass and sometimes kept in leather or thick plastic cases because the highly polished surface is easily scratched. The image is a unique positive made directly onto the plate without a negative, as in other forms of photography. Many daguerreotype photographers replaced miniature painters as makers of portraits as the process was quicker and less expensive.<br><br>\r\n\r\n<b>Ownership & Use</b><br>\r\nDaguerreotypes were not made primarily for public display in exhibitions. Such small and intimate photographs were generally produced as private keepsakes and often remained within the family.<br><br>\r\n\r\n<b>People</b><br>\r\nHoratio Ross (1801-1886) took up photography in 1845, although he is also remembered as one of the 19th century's finest sportsmen. He was best known for steeplechasing (a form of horse racing) and as a marksman. Ross and his sons represented Scotland in the National Rifle Association championships in 1863.","date":{"text":"14/07/06","earliest":"2006-07-14","latest":"2006-07-14"}}],"partNumbers":["244-1946"],"accessionNumberNum":"244","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1946,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-05-06","recordCreationDate":"2003-07-29","availableToBook":false}}