Robert Macpherson

1811 - 1872

Bibliography

All references below, up to 1990, have been taken from 'Scottish Photography - A Bibliography 1839-1989'  by Sara Stevenson and Alison Morrison-Low:

Many of the entries in this  bibliography uses the spelling Macpherson.  However, I have seen MacPherson used elsewhere.

Robert Macpherson 'Photo-Lithography'

Photographic Notes, 2  pp.6-8

1857

Andrew MacTear 'On Photography'

Photographic Notes, 7  p.41

1863

The Works of Flavius Josephus

includes photographs by Macpherson

London
1864

Robert Macpherson - Rome Photographed

London
c.1865

Thomas Sutton 'Reminiscences of an Old Photographer'

British Journal of Photography, 14,  pp.413-414

1867

Macpherson's Vatican Sculptures

Rome
1868

Obituary

British Journal of Photography, 19,  p.577

1872

George Markham  -  'Macpherson's Progress in Photography'

British Journal of Photography, 19,  pp.589-590

1872

Piero Becchetti and Carlo Pietrangeli - 'Un Inglese Fotografo a Roma'

Rome
1978

Ray McKenzie  -  'The Cradle and Grave of Empires:  Robert Macpherson and the Photography of Nineteenth-Century Rome'
The Photographic Collector, No 2 Autumn 1983,  pp.215-234

1983

Mark Haworth-Booth  -  'Robert Macpherson'
in 'The Golden Age of British Photography 1839-1900', p84

New York
1984

Marjorie Munsterberg - 'A Bibliographical Sketch of Robert Macpherson'
The Art Bulletin 67, no. 1  (March 1986)  pp.142-153

1986

Ray McKenzie (Glasgow School of Art)  [Article on Macpherson] 
History of Photography,  Spring 1996

1996

Alistair Crawford  - 
'Robert MacPherson 1814-72: The Foremost Photographer in Rome'
 in Papers of the British School at Rome v. 67 (1999)

1999

 

Scottish Photography - A Bibliography - 1839 to 1989 [Sara Stevenson and Alison Morrison Low, 1990]

 

Robert MacPherson

Background

Early Photographic Albums

Albumen Print

Bibliography

 

 

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