David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Two Newhaven fishwives, Elizabeth (Johnstone) Hall on the right
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title:Two Newhaven fishwives, Elizabeth (Johnstone) Hall on the right
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date created:1991
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materials:Modern calotype print
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measurements:33.90 x 26.40 cm
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credit line:Commissioned 1991
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accession number:PGP HA 371
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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...
