Three photoprints: Stirling Castle, Dunluce Castle, Giant's Causeway

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George Washington Wilson was one of Scotland's premier photographers, pioneering the development photo techniques outside of the studio and the mass production of prints. He first began landscape photography in the 1860s and by 1 864 already claimed to have sold over half a million prints. By the time of his death in 1893 his firm employed 40 staff and was one of the largest publishers of photographic prints in the world. From the 1870s onwards Wilson relied extensively on others to add to his stock of photographic plates so that these prints may be the work of staff photographers, not Wilson himself. Show more