David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Daughters of the Marquis of Abercorn; the Ladies Harriet, Beatrix and Louisa Hamilton [Group 1]
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title:Daughters of the Marquis of Abercorn; the Ladies Harriet, Beatrix and Louisa Hamilton [Group 1]
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date created:16 November 1844
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materials:Calotype negative
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measurements:16.10 x 20.90 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 4644
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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...