About this artwork
John Harden was a watercolorist who produced a number of landscapes and depictions of day-to-day life of his family, servants, friends and acquaintances. The artist John Constable stayed with Harden when he visited the Lake District in 1806. This calotype is possibly one of the ones which were exhibited by Hill at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1844.
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title:John Harden, 1772 - 1847. Watercolourist [b]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Calotype negative (and modern print)
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measurements:21.20 x 16.00 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 1075
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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...