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Messrs Edwards
and
Edwards, Counsell & Miles
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What is known of Messrs Edwards?
Their name appeared in the
advertisements in the Caledonian Mercury for daguerreotype
portraits taken at 19 Prince's Street, Edinburgh.
This
studio was in the name of:
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Messrs Edwards March, April
1842
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Edwards, Counsell
& Miles
May, early June 1842
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Counsell & Miles
late June, July? 1842
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Counsell July?,
August
1842 to January 1843
There
were many further adverts for the studio at 19 Princes Street, after it
passed from Messrs Edwards to Mr Counsel. Please click below to
see these adverts:
The adverts from March, April and May 1842, that mentioned Messrs
Edwards, are reproduced below.
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Advert
Edwards
March and April 1842
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Patronised
by the Royal Family
INSTANTANEOUS
DAGUERREOTYPE
or
PHOTOGRAPHIC
PORTRAITS
by
Messrs
EDWARDS & CO's
NEW PATENTED IMPROVED PROCESS
From
the Royal Adelaide Gallery, London
Messrs
Edwards beg to announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public of
Edinburgh that on Tuesday next the 5th of April, they will
commence taking PORTRAITS by an almost instantaneous process,
producing FAITHFUL and PLEASING LIKENESSES, in these premises,
No 19, PRINCES STREET (late Harvey's Bazaar
This
improvement will be hailed as the greatest desideratum in this
wonderful art, for hitherto, when the sitting required any
length of time, the features were unavoidably constrained or
unnatural. Specimens exhibited a the Rooms where Portraits
will be taken daily
As
sunshine is not necessary,
dull weather does not prevent the
operation
As
Messrs Edwards & Co can only remain for a short time,
parties are requested to pay them an early visit.
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[Caledonian Mercury 31 March 1842, 4 April
1842
ALSO 9
April 1842, but no reference to the opening.] |
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Advert
Edwards, Counsell & Miles
9
May 1842
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Patronised
by the Royal Family
PORTRAIT
ROOM
19, PRINCES STREET
(Late
Harvey Bazaar)
INSTANTANEOUS
DAGUERREOTYPE
OR
PHOTOGRAPHIC
PORTRAITS
By
Messrs
EDWARDS, COUNSELL & MILES
NEW PATENTED IMPROVED PROCESS
From
the Royal Adelaide Gallery, London
and the Photographic Institute, Brighton.
Messrs
Edwards, Counsell & Miles beg to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Public of
Edinburgh that they continue to take faithful and pleasing
PORTRAITS by that Patent Improved Process in PHOTOGRAPHY, at the
above Rooms from ten till four o'clock pm.
Portraits
are produced in any state of the atmosphere; and the time of
sitting only occupies a few seconds. Specimens can be seen
at the Rooms.
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[Caledonian Mercury
9 May 1842]
Messrs Edwards, Counsell & Miles also advertised in The Scotsman,
11 May 1842, page 1. |
Edward Joseph Edwards
or possibly Edward Josephs Edwards |
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The 'Edwards' in
Messrs Edwards and
Edwards, Counsell
& Miles appears to have been
Edward Joseph(s) Edwards. He was:
- a former employee of Beard.
Beard later took action against Edwards in 1842 because he
was operating a daguerreotype studio in Finsbury, London without a licence
from Beard.
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an operator for Claudet at the Royal Adelaide Gallery, London
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operating in Glasgow in 1842.
Edwards appears to have been in London,
Glasgow and Edinburgh during the course of 1842. The advertisements
above give dates for Edinburgh.
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operating in Dumfries in March 1843.
While in
Dumfries, Edwards announced that he was about to visit Russia
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[A
Faithful Likeness; Bernard & Pauline Heathcote - with thanks to
David Simkin for advising me of this book.] |
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