David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
The Family of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers in the Grounds of Merchiston Castle School [Group 66]
![David Octavius Hill, The Family of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers in the Grounds of Merchiston Castle School [Group 66]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/94491.jpg?itok=qXWSrzeo)
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title:The Family of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers in the Grounds of Merchiston Castle School [Group 66]
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date created:1844
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:22.10 x 30.80 cm
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credit line:Purchased from Howard Ricketts 1975, who purchased the Royal Scottish Academy albums
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accession number:PGP HA 421
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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...
