Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Dennistoun Monument with David Octavius Hill and his nieces the Misses Watson
About this artwork
To create a positive image, the negative was held in direct contact with a fresh piece of paper made sensitive to light by a chemical coating. Both were then exposed to natural light. The paper fibres in the negative created a soft image that lacked the sharp lines of later photographs made using glass negatives. One of the most challenging parts of the process to get right was the exact mix of chemicals required to fix the final image, so it stopped reacting to the light.
Published October 2023
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title:Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Dennistoun Monument with David Octavius Hill and his nieces the Misses Watson
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:21.00 x 15.50 cm
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accession number:PGP HA 431
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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...