Figure 1.-This English quarter plate cased Ambrotype shows a father and son. The boy wears black jacket and kilt. Thevfather wears a plaid vest and holds his top hat. A beautifully composed image with asalented phoyographer. . The case has a dark green pillow and artists stamp on the back. The studio was Frmer's Brighton. So they may be vacationers.

We see more English photographs in the 1850s. And the new Ambrotypes ppeared. But still we see relatively few examples. We have not been able to find many English Dag and Ambro portaits. Photographs from the 1840s and 50s are much h rarer than in America. We think some English boys wore kilts in the 40s and 50s, but we have found few photographs outside the royal family. This may bebecause of the limited number of early portraits rather than prevalence, but it may reflect actual prevalence. Early formats (Dags and Ambros) were relatively expensive. We note Lord Elgin with his son Victor Alexander who is wearing a Highland kilt outfit with a black military jacket about 1855. They apparently had their portrait taken during a trip to Paris. Lord Elgin was Scottish, but the family spent areat deal of time in London and foreign postings. Victor was born in Montreal, Canada. We hav found san img of another boy wearing a kilt, agasin uth his father. Thiscwas an Ambro, probsanlt tken in the late-1950s. The portrait was tken in Brighton. This could mean he lived there or the family was on vacation.

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