David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
An Oyster Boat
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title:An Oyster Boat
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date created:2002
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materials:Modern calotype print
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credit line:Commissioned by Michael and Barbara Gray 2002
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accession number:PGP HA 2341
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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...
