The beach Portobello Scotland – Antique Wall Art
![The beach Portobello Scotland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ad/ad81c30773ff-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of The beach Portobello Scotland brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The beach Portobello Scotland
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Portobello, on the Firth of Forth just east of Edinburgh, was a popular seaside resort for city residents by the late 1800s, and this view shows its sandy shore. The image is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland that used multiple stone lithographic plates to reproduce photographs in color. The Detroit Publishing Company licensed the process and sold these prints in the United States, and this one is listed in its 1905 catalog as number 13039. The photograph itself is generally dated to the 1890s, a period when such prints gave American buyers a colorful glimpse of places they might never visit.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 13039. Views of landscape and architecture in Scotland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,636 × 2,756 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 255_The_beach_Portobello_Sc_1890.tif-07663u |
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