little girl sitting on a striped cushion holding a framed portrait of a man, possibly her dead father, by Ross & Thomson of Edinburgh,1847-60, ninth-plate daguerreotype. © Howarth-Loomes Collection - NMS

Portrait group of four unidentified children, 1860s-1870s, carte-de-visite, by Marcus Guttenberg, Bristol. © Howarth-Loomes Collection at National Museums Scotland

Fox Talbot; an 1869 photograph of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by Julia Margaret Cameron; a carte-de-visite, depicting Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a middle-class couple, and an early daguerreotype of the Niagara Falls.

Some of the earliest pioneers of photography were Scots. They were men of vision, innovation and adventure. They

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by Elliot & Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square, London, 1865-86, carte-de- visite. © Howarth-Loomes Collection

were the pioneers in spreading its use.

From the earliest days, Scotland was at the forefront of the art form as early innovators experimented with a range of portraits, landscapes, documentary and fine art images.

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