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Nothing is at present known of Dr. Macpherson except for his contributions to the 1856 exhibition of the Photographic Society of Scotland in Edinburgh: three albumen-on-glass works and four calotypes, all landscapes taken in the Dunoon area.
Roger Taylor & Larry J. Schaaf Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007)
This biography is courtesy and copyright of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is included here with permission.
Date last updated: 4 Nov 2012.
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