Scipio Mactaggart (1812-86), Inveraray

Scipio Mactaggart was an amateur photographer with an excellent eye for a stereo image. He recorded Inveraray in the mid 1860s. Mactaggart was a lawyer, becoming sheriff clerk of Argyll and provost of the burgh of Inveraray. Examples of his work have fortunately recently been rediscovered and added to the Argyll Estates Archives. There is speculation that he was inspired or even taught by George Washington Wilson, who took a few similar views of Inveraray on multiple visits (including 1858, 1860, 1865, 1876 and around 1885).

Argyll Estates Archives are digitising the images for posterity and you can make a huge contribution to this admirable project by adopting one of Scipio’s images to sponsor the cost of the digitisation process. https://argyllestatesarchives.org/about-us/sponsorship/

Image courtesy of Argyll Estates Archives (sponsored for digitisation by Peter Blair)