David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
A Group of Newhaven Children
About this artwork
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title:A Group of Newhaven Children
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accession number:PGP EPS 51.1
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materials:Modern print
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date created:1991
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credit line:Commissioned by Michael and Barbara Gray
David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill
A painter and a lithographer by training, David Octavius Hill is best remembered for the beauty of the calotypes he and Robert Adamson produced together. Hill was a sociable and kind-hearted man who did much to support the arts in Scotland and between 1830 and 1836 he was the unpaid…
