David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Ships' masts and rigging, Leith docks [?] or St Andrews harbour
About this artwork
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artists:
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title:Ships' masts and rigging, Leith docks [?] or St Andrews harbour
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date created:1843 - 1846; printed 1991
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materials:Modern calotype print
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measurements:18.20 x 23.90 cm
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credit line:Commissioned 1991
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accession number:PGP HA 367
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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 Secretary of...