David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Group at Bonaly Towers.David Octavius Hill, Mrs Cockburn, perhaps Lady Lyell, three unknown women, unknown man, John Henning, unknown woman, Lord...
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title:Group at Bonaly Towers.David Octavius Hill, Mrs Cockburn, perhaps Lady Lyell, three unknown women, unknown man, John Henning, unknown woman, Lord Cockburn and Sir George Harvey [Group 75]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:20.80 x 15.30 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 162
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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...
