David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Colonel James Glencairn Burns, 1794 - 1865. Youngest son of Robert Burns the poet [c]
![David Octavius Hill, Colonel James Glencairn Burns, 1794 - 1865. Youngest son of Robert Burns the poet [c]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/104220.jpg?itok=x0biOayp)
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title:Colonel James Glencairn Burns, 1794 - 1865. Youngest son of Robert Burns the poet [c]
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date created:1844 or later
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:19.30 x 14.80 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 437
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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...
