David Octavius Hill & Amelia Robertson Hill
'Adieu 1868 Welcome 1869'. Sketch and poem in David Octavius Hill's handwriting
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title:'Adieu 1868 Welcome 1869'. Sketch and poem in David Octavius Hill's handwriting
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date created:1 January 1869
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materials:Lithograph on paper
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measurements:21.10 x 13.60 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 252
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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...