Macpherson, Robert, 1815 or 1816-1872

Robert Macpherson was a surgeon from Edinburgh, Scotland who moved to Italy to become a painter in the early 1840s; from 1851 onward, he became an innovator in architectural photography, producing mammoth plate photographs of Rome and Tivoli. He also produced art reproduction photographs of sculpture.

From the description of Robert Macpherson Collection. [1856]-1863. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 191957051