David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Lady Elizabeth (Rigby) Eastlake, 1809 - 1893. Writer [c]
About this artwork
Elizabeth Rigby, later Lady Eastlake was a journalist and art critic, writing for journals such as The Quarterly Review. As one of the earliest enthusiasts for photography, she posed for Hill and Adamson more than twenty times. In a review of their work in 1846, she referred to it as 'the beautiful and wonderful Calotype drawings...as the triumphant proof of all to be most revered as truth in art'.
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title:Lady Elizabeth (Rigby) Eastlake, 1809 - 1893. Writer [c]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:21.10 x 15.10 cm
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accession number:PGP HA 2258
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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...