David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Sir John McNeill, 1795 - 1883. Ambassador to the Court of Persia; Privy Councillor; Chairman to the Board to supervise the Poor Law Act, 1845;...
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title:Sir John McNeill, 1795 - 1883. Ambassador to the Court of Persia; Privy Councillor; Chairman to the Board to supervise the Poor Law Act, 1845; conservator of forests in Bombay [c]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:18.50 x 13.70 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 219
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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...
