David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Free Church committee. Rev. Dr Patrick Clason seated, perhaps William Fraser standing, unknown man, Charles Chalmers, unknown man, John Hunter,...
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title:Free Church committee. Rev. Dr Patrick Clason seated, perhaps William Fraser standing, unknown man, Charles Chalmers, unknown man, John Hunter, unknown man, Rev. Alexander Watson Brown and three unknown men [Presbytery Group 20]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Calotype negative
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measurements:14.50 x 20.00 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 4625
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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...