David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Sir William Robert Grove, 1811 - 1896. Scientist; judge; Privy Councillor; Vice-President of the Royal Society
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title:Sir William Robert Grove, 1811 - 1896. Scientist; judge; Privy Councillor; Vice-President of the Royal Society
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date created:October 1844
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materials:Calotype negative
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measurements:21.50 x 15.80 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 1024
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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...