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Biography emphasizes Ross’s accomplishments as a
politician, athlete and marksman. His versatility with
various photographic processes and his enthusiasm for
recording the life and landscape the surrounded him,
have also left an indelible mark on the early history of
photography in Britain.
Lori Pauli
List of Exhibitions
1856 Edinburgh, Photographic Society of Scotland.
1857 (September) Birmingham, First Annual Exhibi-
tion of Photographs, Stereoscopes, Apparatus and
Etc. Birmingham Photographic Society.
1858 (February 18) London, Supplemental Exhibit,
5th Year, Exhibition of Photographs and Daguerreo-
types at the South Kensington Museum, Photographic
Society of Great Britain.
1858 Edinburgh, Photographic Society of Scotland.
1859 Aberdeen, British Association Meeting in Ab-
erdeen, 1859 Exhibition of Photographs, Hen and
Chicken Hotel.
1859 (April) Glasgow, Glasgow Exhibition of Photo-
graphic Works, Glasgow Photographic Society.
1859 (December 1858) Edinburgh, Scottish Exhibi-
tion of the Photographic Society of Scotland, Pho-
tographic Society of Scotland Exhibition Rooms, 90
George Street.
1860 (December 1859) Edinburgh, Scottish Exhibi-
tion of the Photographic Society of Scotland, Pho-
tographic Society of Scotland Exhibition Rooms, 90
George Street.
1861 (January) Edinburgh, Fifth Scottish Exhibition
of the Photographic Society of Scotland, Photo-
graphic Society of Scotland Exhibition Rooms, Mr.
Hay’s Rooms.
1867 (January) Paris, Exposition Universalle, Palace
of the Champ des Mars.
1874 (October–5 November) London, 19th Annual
Exhibition of the Photographic Society of Great
Britain, Suffolk Street Gallery, Pall Mall.Collections
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, United
States.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, United
States.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York,
United States.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University
of Texas, Austin Texas, United States The Science
Museum, London.
See also: Wet Collodion Positive Processes.Further Reading
Stein, Donna, (with an introduction by Sam Wagstaff), Horatio
Ross Presentation Album: Justine H. Ross, 1870, vol. 7, no.
3 and 4, March 1986. New York: Janet Lehr Inc.ROSS, HORATIO
Ross, Horatio. Tree.
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Gilman Collection,
Purchase, Harriette and
Noel Levine Gift, 2005
(2005.100.17) Image © The
Metropolitan Museum of Art.