David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Group at Bonaly Towers. David Octavius Hill, John Henning, unknown man, woman and boy in doorway, perhaps Miss Horner, Mrs Cockburn, Miss...
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title:Group at Bonaly Towers. David Octavius Hill, John Henning, unknown man, woman and boy in doorway, perhaps Miss Horner, Mrs Cockburn, Miss Cockburn and perhaps Lady Lyell, Mrs Cleghorn and unknown woman on the stairs and Lord Cockburn [Group 72]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:15.80 x 21.10 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 164
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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...