Robert Adamson & David Octavius Hill
Hugh Miller, 1802 - 1856. Geologist and author [c]
Robert Adamson & David Octavius Hill, Hugh Miller, 1802 - 1856. Geologist and author [c]
About this artwork
- Artists:
- Robert Adamson (1821 - 1848) Scottish David Octavius Hill (1802 - 1870) Scottish
- Title:
- Hugh Miller, 1802 - 1856. Geologist and author [c]
- Date:
- 1843 - 1847
- Materials:
- Carbon print
- Measurements:
- 27.00 x 18.90 cm
- Object type:
- Photograph
- Accession number:
- PGP HA 1569
- Depicted:
- Hugh Miller
True colours
Robert Adamson
Robert Adamson was one of the first professional photographers, setting up in business in Edinburgh in March 1843. He had aspired to be an engineer but his health was too poor. His brother, John, who was involved in the early experiments with photography in St Andrews, taught him the calotype…
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…