David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Edinburgh Presbytery. Seated, Robert Rev. Dr Patrick Clason, Alexander Earle Monteith, Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs, Rev. Dr George Muirhead,...
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title:Edinburgh Presbytery. Seated, Robert Rev. Dr Patrick Clason, Alexander Earle Monteith, Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs, Rev. Dr George Muirhead, Rev. Dr Thomas Chalmers, Rev. Dr John Bruce; standing, Alexander Dunlop, Rev. Alexander Watson Brown, unknown man, Patrick Graham, unknown man, Alexander Fraser, Rev. Dr Thomas Guthrie, perhaps Rev. Foggo, unknown man, Charles Chalmers, Rev. Dr James Begg, Rev. James Fairbairn [Presbytery Group 13]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:10.50 x 15.60 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 165
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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...
