David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Mark Napier, 1798 - 1879. Advocate and historical writer; member of the Photographic Society of Scotland [c]
![David Octavius Hill, Mark Napier, 1798 - 1879. Advocate and historical writer; member of the Photographic Society of Scotland [c]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/154081.jpg?itok=5T60j4WC)
About this artwork
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artists:
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title:Mark Napier, 1798 - 1879. Advocate and historical writer; member of the Photographic Society of Scotland [c]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:19.50 x 14.10 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 214
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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...
