David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir David Brewster, Rev. Dr David Welsh, James Hamilton and Alexander Earle Monteith [Group 42]
![David Octavius Hill, Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir David Brewster, Rev. Dr David Welsh, James Hamilton and Alexander Earle Monteith [Group 42]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/154023.jpg?itok=olkZSaDO)
About this artwork
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artists:
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title:Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir David Brewster, Rev. Dr David Welsh, James Hamilton and Alexander Earle Monteith [Group 42]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:16 x 20.4 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 238
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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...
