David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson

Trinity College Chapel and Hospital, with Calton Hill in the background [Edinburgh 21]

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artists:

David Octavius Hill (1802 - 1870) Scottish, Robert Adamson (1821 - 1848) Scottish
title:

Trinity College Chapel and Hospital, with Calton Hill in the background [Edinburgh 21]
date created:

1843 - 1847
materials:

Print in unidentified process
measurements:

12.70 x 17.50 cm
object type:

Photograph
accession number:

PGP HA 4208
gallery:

Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Print Room)

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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...