David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Engraving of a portrait thought to be of his wife by Velasquez [Art 11]
![David Octavius Hill, Engraving of a portrait thought to be of his wife by Velasquez [Art 11]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/73020.jpg?itok=kAij2Up1)
About this artwork
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title:Engraving of a portrait thought to be of his wife by Velasquez [Art 11]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:8.80 x 7.00 cm
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accession number:PGP HA 4451
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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...
