David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Sir John Gladstone, 1764 - 1851. East and West India Merchant; Member of Parliament; philanthropist; father of William Ewart Gladstone
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title:Sir John Gladstone, 1764 - 1851. East and West India Merchant; Member of Parliament; philanthropist; father of William Ewart Gladstone
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date created:31 July 1844
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:31.50 x 24.80 cm
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credit line:Purchased
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accession number:PGP HA 539
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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...