David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
The Family of Mr Baines, curator of York Museum [Group 17]
About this artwork
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artists:
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title:The Family of Mr Baines, curator of York Museum [Group 17]
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date created:3 October 1844
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materials:Calotype negative
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measurements:14.90 x 20.90 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 4667
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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...