Scipio Mactaggart (1812-86), Inverary

Scipio Mactaggart was an amateur photographer who recorded Inverary in the mid 1860s. Mactaggart was a lawyer, becoming sheriff clerk of Argyll and provost of the burgh of Inveraray. His work has recently been rediscovered and added to the Argyll Estates Archives, where it will soon be available digitally. There is speculation that he was inspired or even taught by George Washington Wilson, who took a few similar views of Inverary when he visited in 1858, 1860, 1865, 1876 and around 1885.